Moriarty Tribunal

Michael Lowry interviewed by CAB Gardaí investigating the Moriarty

Tribunal findings

Lowry, a former Fine Gael Minister for Communications and current Independent TD, spoke to detectives in Irishtown Garda Station in Dublin earlier this month.

7.06pm, 26 Aug 2024

MICHAEL LOWRY HAS been interviewed by gardaí from the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) who are investigating matters related to the Moriarty Tribunal. 

Lowry, a former Fine Gael Minister for Communications and current Independent TD, spoke todetectives in Irishtown Garda Station in Dublin earlier this month. Sources have said that Lowry was not arrested and had accepted an invitation from gardaí to be formally interviewed.

The CAB investigation has been ongoing for several years. Previously, a 2017 garda file did not progress to the point of a direction for prosecution by the Director of Public Prosecutions.

The latest development comes as detectives have refocused their efforts with a new examination of the findings of the Tribunal chaired by Mr Justice Michael Moriarty.

An inquiry was established in 1997 to examine payments to former Taoiseach Charles Haughey and to Lowry.

Officially called the Tribunal of Inquiry into certain Payments to Politicians and Related Matters, it took 14 years to find that former Fine Gael minister Michael Lowry had an “insidious and pervasive” influence over the awarding of Ireland’s second mobile phone licence in the 1990s to Denis O’Brien’s Esat Digifone company.