O’Brien calls for review of Moriarty Tribunal

DENIS O’BRIEN has called on the head of the Moriarty Tribunal and his legal team to step aside and allow an overseas judge carry out an independent review of the inquiry and all the evidence it has heard.

The billionaire businessman claims the inquiry, which has spent nine years investigating the state’s awarding of a mobile phone licence to his company in 1996, is biased and riddled with procedural errors.

In a scathing statement yesterday, Mr O’Brien said: “The integrity and independence of the Moriarty Tribunal has been utterly undermined and compromised by its own actions and glaring shortcomings. The Moriarty Tribunal as presently constituted is simply not capable of producing an impartial final report.