Kenny: Licence contenders attended fundraiser but insists were not invited and did not make donation

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny has confirmed that members of one of the consortia bidding for the second mobile phone licence attended a fund- raiser he hosted just days before the competition was decided.

But Mr Kenny denied any impropriety, saying the consortium members did not personally donate to the fundraiser or have any discussions with him in relation to the licence.

Fine Gael used “neither tents nor balaclavas” to raise money, he said, in a dig at Fianna Fáil’s infamous Galway Tent and Sinn Féin’s links to the IRA.