Exactly nine years ago, I sat down with Paul Meagher, a long-standing legal adviser to the businessman Denis O’Brien. It was the first anniversary of the publication of the Moriarty Tribunal’s final report, and I was making a programme for RTE on what had happened in the intervening 12 months. In the immediate aftermath of the report’s publication, the then taoiseach Enda Kenny has attempted to reassure a jaundiced public that, unlike so many others, this report would lead to action. “Expect anything but more of the same,” he declared to the Dail in 2011. A year later, however, I…

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