Denis O’Brien’s Esat consortium were best prepared, said lawyer

BUSINESSMAN Denis O’Brien’s lawyer yesterday challenged groups who failed to win the ’s second mobile phone licence “to put up or shut up”.

It was time they came gave evidence that justified a finding that the process was flawed instead of whingeing over Mr O'Brien's success, Eoin McGonigal told the Moriarty Tribunal.

By winning the licence, in partnership with Norwegian telecoms group Telenor, Esat had "wiped the floor" with some major global firms.