Tony Boyle loses funding bid for mobile licence case

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Tony Boyle lost a bid to fund his mobile licence case in the High Court on 20 April 2016. The proposed action followed Persona Digital Telephony’s unsuccessful bid for a mobile phone licence awarded to Denis O'Brien’s Esat Digifone consortium in 1996.

Ms Justice Aileen Donnelly refused the requested funding arrangement, holding that third-party litigation funding remained unlawful under Irish law. Boyle said he lacked the estimated €10 million needed to pursue the case, which included an allegation that Esat won the competition by bribing Michael Lowry; that allegation was denied.