Lowry intends to contest next election despite investigations

MICHAEL LOWRY vowed yesterday to stay in national politics, admitting his North Tipperary supporters had “kept me sane”.

The Independent TD said he remained buoyant, despite being the subject of five investigations, many of them overlapping, over the past nine years. The probes related to his role as a government minister, his tax affairs and the conduct of his refrigeration business.

He stressed he had done nothing wrong as Fine Gael Communications Minister when Denis O’Brien’s Esat Digifone won the second mobile phone licence competition in 1995.