SOME of the civil servants who have given evidence to the Moriarty Tribunal on the way the competition for the State’s second mobile phone licence was run may be recalled. The tribunal has been sitting for 200 days.

RUMOURS surfaced that financier Dermot Desmond was an Esat Digifone shareholder when the consortium won the competition for the country’s second mobile phone licence, the Moriarty Tribunal was told yesterday.

A PERSON from Denis O’Brien’s phone company was found in an off-limits room used by bidders for the country’s second mobile phone licence, the Moriarty Tribunal was told yesterday.

THERE was no suggestion from evidence made available to the tribunal that former Communications Minister Michael Lowry interfered with the Government committee that selected the winner of the country’s second mobile telephone licence, Mr Justice Michael Moriarty said yesterday.

TWO senior civil servants had reservations about Esat Telecom’s approach to regulations governing the telecom sector, the Moriarty Tribunal heard yesterday.

MICHAEL LOWRY seemed indifferent when he named the top two contenders for the country’s second mobile phone licence in early October 1995, the Moriarty Tribunal heard yesterday.

CHARLES HAUGHEY is to be grilled again by the Moriarty Tribunal despite his deteriorating health, it emerged yesterday.