Lowry refuses to resign as DPP receives findings

DISGRACED deputy Michael Lowry was resisting growing calls for him to resign last night as the Government passed the findings of the Moriarty Tribunal to the DPP and the Garda Commissioner.

Enda Kenny was left looking isolated as he failed to join the Labour and Fianna Fáil leaders in demanding the Tipperary North independent quit the Dáil after the damning findings of the probe into how Lowry helped Denis O’Brien land the lucrative mobile phone licence continued to produce political shockwaves.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore denied referring the tribunal probe to the DPP was effectively kicking it into touch as the report cannot be used as a basis for prosecutions.