Tribunal legal team given ‘cloak of protection’

THE Moriarty tribunal was yesterday claimed to have given its legal team “a cloak of protection.”

The charge was made by former cabinet minister Michael Lowry ahead of his cross-examination of the payments-to-politicians probe’s final and crucial witness, top Danish consultant Professor Michael Andersen.

The tribunal has been seeking for possible links between Mr Lowry and telecoms tycoon Denis O’Brien, who headed the consortium that was handed Ireland’s second mobile phone licence in 1995.