O’Reilly ‘took revenge in editorial’

TONY O’REILLY was so embittered by his company’s failure to land the second mobile phone licence he took revenge on Fine Gael, the Moriarty Tribunal was told yesterday.

O’Reilly ‘took revenge in editorial’
Fri, 06 Dec, 2002 - 00:00
Jim Morahan and John Kelly

It came in the form of a front-page editorial in the Irish Independent.

The editorial, published on the day of the 1997 general election, told voters to oust the Fine Gael-led coalition.

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