Moriarty Tribunal suffers another setback

THE beleaguered Moriarty Tribunal has suffered another humiliating setback after withdrawing a number of adverse provisional findings against businessman Dermot Desmond.

It is also understood that the future of barrister John Coughlan as a senior member of the inquiry’s legal team is in doubt.

The latest developments must now place a serious question mark over the future of the inquiry and increase the possibility that its work could get further bogged down in ongoing legal wrangles.