O’Brien: Plot to damage me

Billionaire businessman Denis O’Brien has made sensational allegations that former Independent News and Media boss Gavin O’Reilly was involved in a concerted and unlawful conspiracy to damage him and his business empire.

The revelations came to light after reporting restrictions were lifted yesterday in the High Court. The court heard Mr O’Brien had anonymously been given a memory stick containing an “extraordinary” dossier of documents mostly unfavourable to his interests.

Mr O’Brien alleges a forensic examination of the dossier by a firm, Epsion, indicates Dublin-based public relations firm Red Flag Consulting Ltd, whose executives include Gavin O’Reilly, former CEO of Independent News & Media and former senior executive with INM, Karl Brophy, are linked to the alleged conspiracy.