BUSINESSMAN Denis O’Brien has commenced a High Court challenge against limitations imposed by the Moriarty tribunal on his legal team’s ability to question expert witness Professor Michael Andersen.

Businessman Denis O'Brien has commenced a challenge against limitations imposed by the Moriarty tribunal on his legal team's ability to question expert witness Professor Michael Andersen.

THE Moriarty tribunal was yesterday claimed to have given its legal team “a cloak of protection.”

Businessman Denis O'Brien is going back to court to challenge the work of the Moriarty Tribunal.

THE Moriarty Tribunal will move into extra time next week in an effort to finish hearing evidence from its crucial final witness.

The High Court is to rule this morning on a challenge to Michael McDowell's appointment as senior counsel for the Moriarty Tribunal.

The High Court will rule tomorrow morning on a challenge to the Moriarty Tribunal’s decision to employ Michael McDowell as its senior counsel.

Lawyers for the Moriarty Tribunal are expected to defend the decision to hire the former Tánaiste Michael McDowell as senior counsel later today.

The High Court will decide tomorrow whether to halt the former Tánaiste Michael McDowell's involvement in the Moriarty Tribunal.

The Chairman of the Moriarty Tribunal has said former Tánaiste Michael McDowell will cease to have any further involvement in the inquiry once he completes questioning a current witness.

Lawyers for two well-known businessmen will this morning mount a legal challenge to the decision to involve a former Tánaiste in the Moriarty Tribunal.

THE surprise appointment of Michael McDowell to represent the Moriarty Tribunal at its public hearings is due to be challenged at the High Court later today.

A DANISH consultant, who had previously declined to appear as a witness, is set to give key evidence to the Moriarty Tribunal today.

The Moriarty Tribunal is to sit next week to hear evidence from a Danish consultant who played a key role in the 1995 competition that was won by Esat Digifone.

THE beleaguered Moriarty Tribunal has suffered another humiliating setback after withdrawing a number of adverse provisional findings against businessman Dermot Desmond.

DENIS O’BRIEN has called on the head of the Moriarty Tribunal and his legal team to step aside and allow an overseas judge carry out an independent review of the inquiry and all the evidence it has heard.

There could be a further delay to the publication of the final report of the Moriarty Tribunal.

THE Moriarty Tribunal’s legal team have been accused of bias by a Danish telecommunications expert who was centrally involved in designing the competition for the state’s second mobile phone licence.

MULTI-MILLIONAIRE businessman Denis O’Brien has accused the Moriarty Tribunal of deliberately concealing information which would have been beneficial to his case.

DENIS O’BRIEN concluded his evidence to the Moriarty Tribunal yesterday with a further rebuke of the inquiry’s legal team.

MILLIONAIRE businessman Denis O’Brien yesterday lost his legal bid in the High Court to restrain the Moriarty Tribunal from calling economist Peter Bacon to give evidence in public about the procedures which led to the award of the State’s second mobile phone licence to Esat Digifone.

THE High Court has reserved judgment on an application by Denis O’Brien to restrain the Moriarty Tribunal from calling economist Peter Bacon to give evidence.

BUSINESSMAN Denis O’Brien, who has spent €7.5 million on advisers, yesterday called on the Moriarty Tribunal to wind up its public inquiry into the awarding of the country’s second mobile phone licence.

MILLIONAIRE businessman Denis O’Brien told the Moriarty Tribunal yesterday his Esat Digifone consortium won the competition for the second mobile phone licence in 1995 because it was the best bid.

FORMER Fine Gael minister Sean Barrett told the Moriarty Tribunal yesterday he considered businessman David Austin, who handled a controversial $50,000 Telenor/Esat Telecom donation to the party, to be an honest man.

FORMER Esat Digifone legal expert Jarleth Burke told the resumed Moriarty Tribunal yesterday he had never had any contact with Michael Lowry, Minister for Communications during the competition for the country’s second mobile phone licence in 1995.

NEARLY €5 million was paid by the State to the Danish firm that is refusing to testify about its role as independent consultants to the second mobile phone project eight years ago.

THE speed at which Michael Lowry announced Esat Digifone as winner of the competition for the State’s second mobile phone licence surprised former top civil servant Fintan Towey, the Moriarty Tribunal heard 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.

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

KEY consultants who vetted the applicants for the country’s second mobile phone licence say they won’t give evidence before the Moriarty Tribunal, now investigating how the award was made.