Welcome to www.moriartytribunal.com

Media Alert:  “Moriarty lawyers’ demand for severance payments rejected” – Irish Times, 27 August 2011

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2011/0827/1224303063208.html

This site was first created by Mr. Denis O’Brien in June 2009  to help explain and expose the inner workings of the Moriarty Tribunal of Inquiry. The Moriarty Tribunal was established in September 1997 to inquire into alleged payments to the politicians Mr. Charles J. Haughey (deceased) and Mr. Michael Lowry T.D. The Tribunal was also mandated pursuant to its Terms of Reference to inquire into acts and decisions made by both of those politicians during their respective tenures in Public Office.

The Moriarty Tribunal issued its final report part two in March 2011.  This report largely dealt with the Tribunal’s inquiries relating to Mr. Michael Lowry T.D. and concluded the substantive work of the Moriarty Tribunal.  Mr. Denis O’Brien (and many others) have vehemently rejected many of the opinions as contained in the Tribunal’s final report.  These widespread rejections are based primarily on the fact that the Tribunal’s opinions did not reflect the actual sworn evidence given to the Tribunal over the past decade; rather these opinions slavishly followed the preferred theories advanced by the Tribunal and its legal team in relation to the matters inquired into.

This website seeks to address “the opinions” as issued in the Moriarty Tribunal’s final report part two.  Over the coming weeks and months, these opinions as expressed in the Tribunal’s report shall be considered and addressed.  The purpose of this site is to set out the facts; not opinion.  It seeks to set out the sworn evidence as given before the Tribunal in all relevant matters and compare and contrast this actual evidence to the theory, hearsay and supposition heavily favoured by the Moriarty Tribunal in its final report.

The final report of the Moriarty Tribunal into these matters represented the culmination of some ten years’ of work at the cost of tens of millions of Euro; most of which was lavished on fees paid to the Tribunal’s own team of multi-millionaire lawyers.  In excess of €33.5m was paid in legal fees alone to the Tribunal’s own team of lawyers.  This wesbite will, over the coming weeks and months, seek to address the matters raised in the Moriarty Tribunal’s report through the posting of regular updates and responses.

“2,348 pages, 14 years and a whole lot of idle gossip” – John Waters, Irish Times, 25 March 2011

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2011/0325/1224293044458.html