Officials’ evidence ‘was ignored’

THE findings of the Moriarty Tribunal have been criticised by a retired senior civil servant for ignoring the sworn evidence of a large group of government officials.

They had testified the state’s second mobile phone licence was won fairly by Denis O’Brien’s Esat consortium.

Pádraig Ó hUiginn, who was the country’s top civil servant as secretary-general of the Department of the Taoiseach between 1982 and 1993, said in a statement yesterday he had a fundamental problem with the inquiry’s final report.