Communications vacuum gave Lowry and O’Brien free rein on Moriarty
You devote millions of euro of taxpayers’ money to it. You survive a couple of mistakes and a rake of legal challenges. You publish a report which states, without equivocation, that a Government minister received loads of money from the person to whom his department then awarded a mind-bogglingly lucrative licence.
And then you watch while three of the men you excoriated take over the airwaves to tell the public that you got it arseways. They suggest you got it arseways because you started with a thesis for which you then sought the supportive data. You were basically out to get them, and you let nothing stand in your way. But — they point out — your 14-year report amounts to nothing more than one man’s opinion and you know what you can do with your opinion.
