Declan Ganley discovery hearing opens over licence award

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Declan Ganley’s discovery hearing over the 1996 Esat Digifone mobile-phone licence award opened in the High Court on 2 April 2019. The action concerns claims by Ganley-linked companies that the licence process was flawed and the award was not merited; the defendants deny those claims.

The plaintiffs sought documents from the defendants, while the defendants opposed the applications as onerous, with some material dating to the mid-1990s. The hearing was expected to continue for several days, and no date had been fixed for the full action.