Michael Lowry, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetMichael Lowry
Irish politician
Date of Birth: 13-Mar-1953
Place of Birth: County Tipperary, Munster, Ireland
Profession: businessperson, politician
Nationality: Ireland
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
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About Michael Lowry
- Michael Lowry (born 13 March 1953) is an Irish Independent politician who has served as a Teachta Dála (TD) since 1987, currently for the Tipperary constituency.
- He previously served as Minister for Transport, Energy and Communications from 1994 to 1996 and Chairman of the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party from 1993 to 1994.Lowry is a former Chairman of the Fine Gael party and was Minister for Transport, Energy and Communications between 1994 and 1996.
- He resigned from his ministry in some controversy.
- Fine Gael barred him from standing for the party again.
- Thereafter he ran as an Independent candidate and has maintained his seat in the Dáil ever since.
- The Moriarty Tribunal concluded "beyond doubt" that Lowry was a tax evader and had assisted businessman Denis O'Brien's Esat Digiphone consortium in acquiring a lucrative mobile phone licence in the mid-1990s, during Lowry's time as Communications Minister.
- O'Brien went on to become one of the richest men in Ireland.Lowry initiated a defamation lawsuit against an Irish Independent journalist, Sam Smyth, over an article that Smyth had written regarding the Moriarty Tribunal as well as comments that Smyth made on a TV3 show.
- The lawsuit was thrown out of several courts and Lowry was ordered to pay Smyth's legal costs.
- More recently his relationship with Kevin Phelan has come under scrutiny, with the emergence of a recorded conversation in which Lowry claims to have made an undeclared payment of €250,000. Despite being the subject of a criminal investigation resulting from several scandals pursuing him from his time in office, he continues to be very popular in his constituency.
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