Win For The Little Guy: Denis O’Brien Gets State To Pay His Legal Bills For Moriarty Tribunal

A SMALL gathering occurred outside the courts in Dublin today as the public shared in the triumph of one Denis O’Brien, after the Cork businessman compelled the Irish State to honour its obligations to Moriarty Tribunal witnesses and pay his legals fees in full.

“One in the eye for the government, yup! A great day for the little guy,” shared one person celebrating the news that O’Brien wouldn’t have to get the cheque book out to pay the €5.8mn in legal fees he incurred as the State Claims Agency would now pick up the tab.

This despite O’Brien being found by the tribunal to have made payments to Michael Lowry totalling IR£500,000 and supported a loan of £420,000 given to Lowry, a benefit equivalent to a payment, and that Lowry supplied information to O’Brien which was ‘of significant value and assistance to him in securing the licence’.

“Ah brilliant, finally a bitta good news amongst the doom and gloom you do be seeing on the news,” confirmed another person joining in the celebrations.

“To think he’s had this lack of consequences hanging over his head for decades, nice he’s free of it now. To think he might have had to use his own money, doesn’t bear thinking about. The stress of it, I can see it now, it would drive any man to develop the neck of a frog trying to set the world record for longest held breath”.

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