Unfortunately and as far as I know (I’m open to correction) statements given at these tribunals cannot be used as evidence directly. The Gardai would have to go and interview people and obtain new statements. Only in Ireland…..

But it is an offence, under the Tribunals of Inquiry Act, to knowingly give false or misleading evidence to a Tribunal. The tape recording, if verified, would seem to prove that he did knowingly do so.

Reg, evidence given at a tribunal cannot be subsequently used, however perjury is, of itself a criminal act and that can be prosecuted as a stand alone offence.

I wonder would the DPP, be directed to prosecute and someone should make a complaint to the gardai!

ha ha ….. as if he would ! I reckon olde Meehole is as pleased as the next person that kenny willl not be taking a second look at the Moriarty Trib Report….. A big sigh of relief all round . NEXT !

More likely he’s terrified what may come out, after all Kenny and a number of other current ministers sat around the cabinet table which signed off on much of Lowry’s deals.

My thoughts exactly Richard. I.m.o, Lowry has dirt on them a mile high. They know it too, id say their scared beyond belief.

Reg- absolutely right. The Tribunals cost enough. Micheal will be proposing another look at electronic voting machines next. PPARS maybe, Micheal. That was only €131m, after all.

Says the co-founder of Fianna Fail London.

Doesn’t change any one of the facts I’ve written above Reg. Here’s the link for Bannon: http://johnnyfallon.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/outlawing-smartphones/

Furthermore, it’s an offence, under the Tribunals of Inquiry Act, to knowingly give false or misleading evidence to a Tribunal. Obviously he was/is hiding from the tribunal if his own words from the interview are true. This dramatically changes on of the key areas of the tribunal’s investigation.

Also, check out Conor Ryan’s piece in the Examiner “Dear Mr Lowry, please answer the following…” for a clear outline of just what questions Lowry needs to answer in relation to the tribunal’s investigation. This all coming on the back of Elaine Byrne’s work exposing some other irregularities with regard Michael Lowry.

So Bertie Aherne must have won that money on a horse then?

Bertie still has a massive case to answer. DPP still looking at Mahon ruling, last I heard, to see what charges can be brought against whom.

Eoin- I know you like the voters to forget but you do remember how Fianna Fail courted Michael Lowry in the last Dáil to support that beloved Government and satisfy its insatiable lust for power and adherence to party over country? I ask because ye pretty much let him order off the menu for Tipperary at a time when Fine Gael had at least expelled him.

No Dillon, I don’t want voters to forget because if they do, then politicians tend to forget as well and the same mistakes are made all over again. The same way that I don’t want them to forget that Lowry was FG’s scapegoat bagman that oversaw that party’s miraculous emergence from a huge debt to fiscally in the black in record time. Nor do I want them to forget the arrogance of the Ministers that lied to them before GE 2011. FG have been trying to re-write recent history even since they took power and where as I have no bother pointing out the mistakes made by FF and the unacceptable behaviour of ex-members, I’m also not going to try run away from accountability and the fact that they were in the party then. I’m also not going to allow anyone else away with hypocracy of the grandiose scale that you perpetually type here.

@eoin- “allow”? There’s something you boys need to get used to. The days of ye “allowing” anyone to do anything are gone. You didn’t address my point about Fianna Fails indulgence of Michael Lowry in THE LAST GOVERNMENT, though. You know- after FG expelled him and it was obvious to all the world what he got up to. Why is that? Your party leader was in the cabinet which signed on the bottom line every time Michael arrived with the parish pump demands that would ensure his reelection. The fact is that Michael Lowry is still in the Dail because Fianna Fail feathered his nest. The floor is yours. How does that not make you sound like an absolutely joke when you try to sling mud at a party that expelled him. No rhetoric. An answer to that question, please?

FF London?!
Could you organise a “function” for me?
I need a digout.

(ps can’t take cheques)

No rhetoric indeed. Taking Lowry’s support was not on. It wasn’t needed. But on a technicality it wasn’t the last government (30th, Cowen lead) it was the one before that (29th lead by Ahern) that signed the agreement with him, but that’s just a technicality. Now care to address any of the the points I made? Why did the CURRENT government lie to the people to gain power? Varadkar’s, not another red cent; Rielly’s Roscommon hosiptal downgrade pledge, etc. And what about the new way to do politics and real political reform? How do you feel about the CURRENT governments policy of feathering their own nests in throwing millions of Euros of exchequer funding at hospitals in their own constituencies and set up primary care centres on their buddy’s land? The sheer arrogance is of a scale that would have put even the bold Bertie to shame!

Also, why was Lowry the only scapegoat on that time? It’s clear that he wasn’t acting alone. What has he been promised for him to keep his council I wonder? FG always ran two candidates in Tipp North up until he went independent after all. Now ye won’t dare upset your boy and only run candidates from the other side of the constitency. A small price to pay!

I believe thats Check…..and Mate for Dillon!!

Eoin, It upsets me to see young guys like you sucked into the ‘cult’ that is FF… Only thing i can think of is that you have been brainwashed by years of parent pressure or perhaps you are an ambitious little fellow who thinks FF are his meal ticket…

Eoin. Your party bankrupt the country. “The Republican Party” surrendered our Sovereignty. You admit mistakes were made as though you’re apologising for accidentally standing on someone’s toes. You really believe you can put me on the defensive? Just how off the wall arrogant are you?

Charles Haughey. Ray Burke. Bertie Ahern. Liam Lawlor. Beverly Cooper Flynn. Pee Flynn. Ivor Callelly. Should I go on?

And on a point of order, Micheal Martins last cabinet accommodated Michael Lowry in exactly the same way as its predecessor so yes it was the last Government, all of two years ago, that happily wooed Michael Lowry.

Declan, Dillon and dowthebow can’t take the heat nor answer the questions so they try a combination of shifting the goalposts and playing the man, not the ball. Sad! I’ll take that as ye personally are okay with corruption, as long as it’s “the right corruption” (ie: FG are the perpetrators a la Moriarty and those named in Mahon that were unpunished as they knew too much). Cheers for the confirmation of that lads.

Eoin- I didn’t play the man. I played the party. If I wanted to play the man I’d ask you how you’re enjoying life in the UK while the rest of us try to fix our Republic. But I’m not that petty. That would be small of me.

I’m enjoying writing policies and getting them passed, writing political reform proposals and getting those adopted as policy. Feeding experiences and ideas back home to improve industries and promote more innovation in a range of engineering and energy sectors. What was that about you fixing the country? By the way, that’s 4 comments in a row where you are avoiding my questions. I answered all yours!

Ah, yes. The Republican dream. Following the United Kingdoms lead. I suppose it does show you’re consistent. You’re following FF doctrine- getting foreigners to run our country. It does explain the troika invite, I suppose. We “West Brits” in Fine Gael have this really old fashioned idea in our heads about self determination. Ironic, really. And you’re absolutely right. I’m not entertaining your points. Listening to a Fianna Failer lecture on propriety, honouring election promises, politicking and sensible economic strategy is like conversing with a prison guard at Auschwitz about religious tolerance. To engage would suggest a modicum of respect. And that went out the window with the last Micheal Martin Government.

Actually I’m going off of my own research at some of the world’s leading Universities (Glasgow and Edinburgh Uni’s) and international best practise. Plus we have a thing call the EurCode standards but I wouldn’t expect you to understand anything about it. Your higher ups in FG don’t! They just do what ever their masters in the EPP tell them to do from the Commission.

You’re not entertaining any of my points……aka: you have no answers to the questions I posed as you clearly have not a single notion how to even approach them. I don’t blame you, the scale of the arrogance, back-handers and broken election promises of this the “change” government is truly staggering. Then you go and invoke Godwin’s Law to really kill off any hope you had of trying to defend your rotten to the core government. And to clarify, it’s mainly (but not restricted to) the FG members in government I have issue with plus a number of the backbenchers. There are some very capable members and indeed politicians in FG, just Enda can’t promote them because the likes of Reilly and Hogan, in the same ilk as Lowry, know where all the skeletons are buried. Thanks again for proving me hunch about you correct – completely happy with corruption as long as FG are perpetrating it. Now I’ve wasted enough time with a troll who stand behind a fake twitter account, set up solely to troll his nonsense on thejournal articles without the courage to put their name or face to their comments. Goodnight, and thanks again for showing up that FG arrogance isn’t just the sole possession of Shatter, Hogan and Reilly……it goes all the way down too!

This is far too important a matter for party politics. There are some very serious and important questions to be answered.

I call for a Company Inspector to be appointed to Garuda Limited so as to establish the precise source and application of the £200k or £250k.

We need to know what exactly happened. We don’t know if there was wrongdoing but at least we need to know the facts and there are various ways of doing this.

Reporting this to the appropriate authorities is just a fob off. Imagine the authorities doing anything!

Wow, you really have lost it now Dillon haven’t you. Your vitriolic abuse of me in quite shameful and reflects very poorly on yourself and your party. If you must know, my grandfather was a signed up member of Fine Gael. That’s a well known fact in West Clare. My family had no members in the Civil War as the last family member I had to serve in the fighting died on November 20th, 1920, Vice-Brigadier Peadar Clancy was his name. You might look him up. In fact you never even once asked me why I joined Fianna Fáil. It was to do with the industry of Lemass that brought us into the 20th century, the Constitution that is still held aloft as a model of democracy written in a time that Europe descended into extremist dictatorships. I see the provision of equality, particularly equality of opportunity in education. I see the greatest moves towards peace and reconciliation on this island with FF at the middle of it. I have seen every piece of legislation advancing LGTB rights being brought in by FF. I have seen them being the greatest custodians of our culture and language from a political point of view in our history. And I also note the foresight and vision from FF that brought us into the European project in the first place that has seen massive advances in standards of living, social justice and balanced, respective society. That’s why I got involved. I’m happy to put my name and face to the above. I’ll not hide it behind a pseudonym and blindly slate others for being upfront and honest about themselves DIllon.

Your abuse at me is understandable though. You asked me about corruption and I exclaimed how awful it was but when I showed you that it’s not the sole provision of FF and is actually endemic throughout the system and particularly FG (Moriarty, McCracken, Flood and Mahon………lets not forget the only sitting TD named by Mahon still has her seat on the government benches) and this shattered your fantasy and your forst reaction was to lash out. I have long said that corruption needs a cross party solution however it’s always the FG’ers in particular that want to shout down that suggestion. Wonder why (note: see thejournal article above)

^^^^ That probbaly doesn’t make much sense to most people since Dillon’s personal rant against using rather offensive terms to describe my mental state and my lineage. Thankfully it’s been removed as some of the terms may have upset other users even though I personally can take such abuse. The moderation here has always been top notch. Fair play folks.

Get a room you two, save the bloody classroom debate for the dail. Message from an un-politically affilialted ordinary joe. See now your both united in your contempt for me, isnt it great to just get along.

tweedle dum and tweedle dee again. Didn’t take too long to get back to the civil war did it?

Jason, it is jobs for the boys, keep the graveyard train rolling .