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Tue 03 Mar 2011FG publishes advice on Telenor donation
Legal advice sought by the Fine Gael party in 1998 in relation to money it received and subsequently returned to Esat’s Norwegian partners Telenor said the party did not have an obligation to disclose the matter to the Moriarty tribunal.
The $50,000 donation was made in December 1995 towards a Fine Gael fundraising dinner promoted by the late businessman David Austin, who was an associate of then minister for communications Micheal Lowry and Denis O’Brien, and held in New York a month earlier.
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