“In particular, the tribunal is satisfied that payments and other benefits . . . were furnished by and on behalf of Mr Denis O’Brien to Mr Michael Lowry, and that these were demonstrably referable to the acts and conduct of Mr Lowry in regard to the GSM process that inured to the benefit of Mr O’Brien’s winning consortium, Esat Digifone . . .”
“. . . repeated and clandestine courses of actions were adopted by persons intimately associated with Mr O’Brien, to confer payments or other benefits upon Mr Lowry, on behalf of Mr O’Brien.”
“Mr Lowry’s influence on the process was both direct, as in his disgraceful action in bringing a guillotine down on the work of the Project Group, and indirect and insidious . . .
“. . .in separate governments of entirely different political composition, it was possible for Mr Haughey and Mr Lowry in succession to show favour to wealthy or prominent individuals, and in recompense obtain payments or other benefits, in each instance bringing improper influence to bear on public servants for the end as sought.”
“. . . in the cynical and venal abuse of office, the brazen refusal to acknowledge the impropriety of his financial arrangements with Mr Denis O’Brien and Mr Ben Dunne, and by his contemptuous disregard for his taxation obligations, Mr Lowry displayed qualities similar in nature , and has cast a further shadow over this country’s public life.”