Digifone adviser ‘never met Lowry’

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.

For the minister to contact him would be “extraordinary, out of the blue and unexpected”, Mr Burke told Rossa Fanning BL, for Mr Lowry.

Equally, it would be “extraordinary, out of the blue and unexpected” for civil servants involved in the process to have sent him a document.