THE chairman of the Revenue Commissioners held a series of meetings with supermarket boss Ben Dunne in 1987 at the request of then Taoiseach Charles J Haughey at a time when Dunnes Stores was facing a multi-million pound tax bill.

MAJOR questions will be raised over whether Ben Dunne received financial payback from former Taoiseach Charles J Haughey after a tribunal heard yesterday that the Dunne family had their tax bill cut by £22.8 million in the aftermath of meetings with the Revenue initiated by Mr Haughey.

DAYS before Esat Digifone got the licence to run the country’s second mobile phone network in May, 1996, Norwegian executives feared businessman Denis O’Brien would use his Dermot Desmond connection to gain control of the consortium, the Moriarty Tribunal heard yesterday.

FORMER senior civil servant Regina Finn told the Moriarty Tribunal yesterday there was nothing sinister in not keeping an official record of a key meeting with Esat Digifone representatives on May 3, 1996.