The decision of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) not to bring criminal charges against anyone arising from the Moriarty tribunal’s final report in 2011 has been welcomed by Michael Lowry and Denis O’Brien. In his statement on Tuesday, Lowry criticised the tribunal’s 2011 report as “flawed” and based on “conjecture, manipulation and speculation” rather than hard facts or admissible evidence. Neither O’Brien nor Lowry referred in their relatively short statements to the money trail findings of the tribunal, which they rejected at the time of the tribunal’s report. After Lowry’s fall from grace in late 1996, the tribunal also decided that O’Brien supplied financial support to Lowry for property ventures in England. He was a target of the McCracken (Dunnes Payments) Tribunal, the Judge tribunal, an inquiry by the Revenue Commissioners that went on for years and a Garda investigation that also lasted years.

Source: The Irish Times March 12, 2026 07:09 UTC