Gardaí Praised For Swift Interview Of Michael Lowry 13 Years After Moriarty Tribunal Findings

EVEN the most ardent of critics of the Irish police force have today put away their insults and rightly praised the Criminal Assets Bureau for its timely interview of Michael Lowry just 13 years after the Moriarty Tribunal delivered its findings on political corruption.

“Hey, maybe there’s hope for my bike yet,” ventured one pensioner, holding out hope that the gardaí would follow up on his report of the theft of his 8th birthday present from his parents.

While the Moriarty Tribunal found businessman Denis O’Brien had made two secret payments to Lowry in 1996 and 1999 which amounted to £500,000, many have rightly pointed out gardaí could have just sat on this knowledge and done nothing.

“They didn’t have to interview Michael 13 years later after this conclusion was made, there’s real criminals out there dodging the TV licence fee and smoking whacky tobacky but fair play to them, they’re giving a look see,” added a normally cynical critic of the gardaí.

Long accused of a slavish, cult-like devotion to their local TD, residents in Lowry’s Tipperary constituency said they felt the police interview was a chilling development but hoped they’d never have to use their newly acquired nuclear warheads were Lowry to be formally arrested for something so trivial as ‘corruption’.