Dear Phil, all talk and no action is no good

It’s a pity Mr Hogan didn’t listen to the Taoiseach’s stirring rhetoric and come clean about Mr Lowry, writes Political Editor Paul O’Brien

WHEN Enda Kenny rose to his feet in the Dáil on Mar 29 last year to respond to the findings of the Moriarty Tribunal, he said his administration intended to “restore public confidence” in politics and government.

The report had found that a former Fine Gael minister, Michael Lowry, had secured the winning of the State’s lucrative second mobile phone licence for businessman Denis O’Brien in the 1990s.