O’Brien: Moriarty too blinded by agenda to carry out mandate

DENIS O’BRIEN launched a blistering attack on the tribunal and its chairman Mr Justice Michael Moriarty yesterday at what was possibly the last public sitting of the long-running inquiry.

The billionaire businessman accused the chairman and his legal team of being “too conflicted, too compromised and too blinded by an agenda” to carry out its mandate properly.

In a scathing criticism of the tribunal’s investigation into the awarding of the second mobile phone licence to his Esat consortium, Mr O’Brien said he believed there had been deliberate efforts to conceal important evidence and information from him.