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The State’s corporate enforcerhas asked Independent News &Media’s chairman, Leslie Buck-ley, to explain who gave a Brit-ish-based security company ac-cess to the newspaper publish-er’s internal IT system, and whopaid for it.

The Office of the Director ofCorporate Enforcement(ODCE), which is conductingan inquiry into a suspected databreach at INM, put questions toMr Buckley in August about theinvolvement of Trusted Data So-

lutions UK. However, detailsemerged only this week in courtpapers.

Mr Buckley, who is INMboard representative of its ma-jor shareholder Denis O’Brien,was asked what benefit INM re-ceived, who paid the bill, andthe names of others able to helpthe ODCE’s inquiries.

Mr Buckley has told theODCE that access to the IT sys-tem was granted to TDS, whichhas its European headquartersin Cardiff, as part of a “cost re-duction exercise” at the State’slargest media group.

Separately, INM announced

on Friday that director DavidHarrison has resigned. Mr Har-rison, who was shareholder Der-mot Desmond’s nominee, in-formed INM on Friday of his res-ignation, “effective today”.

Mr Harrison is the chief exec-utive of Mr Desmond’s elearn-ing company, Intuition Publish-ing. His resignation follows thedeparture this year of JeromeKennedy, former KPMG man-aging partner who was INM’ssenior independent director.

Court documents seen byThe Irish Times show Mr Buck-ley told the ODCE that an orderit served on him in October re-quired him to extract and re-view a large number of docu-ments dating back two years.

PrivilegeFollowing this process, 275 doc-uments were provided to theODCE, but privilege wasclaimed over 11 of them, whichwere handed over to the ODCEin a sealed envelope, but have

not yet been viewed by it pend-ing a High Court ruling.

The case before the HighCourt is between the ODCE andMr Buckley and does not in-volve INM. Mr Buckley is beingrepresented in this matter byhis own personal lawyers, andnot by INM’s lawyers.

INM declined to comment.On November 24th, INM said it

was “not a party” to the court ap-plication, “has co-operated ful-ly” and “has no further com-ment to make at this point”. MrBuckley made no response.

According to its website,TDS specialises in the “identifi-cation, restoration and conver-sion” of electronically-stored in-

formation on servers. Attemptsto contact the group yesterdaywere unsuccessful.

In an affidavit, Mr Buckleysaid the cost reduction exercisewith which he said the docu-ments were connected, necessi-tated the engagement of “exter-nal technical expertise”, firstlyby IT expert Derek Mizak.

Mr Mizak in turn recom-mended hiring a specialist ITcompany. Mr Buckley said IT se-curity specialist John Henry, ofSpecialist Security Services, in-troduced him to Mr Mizak.

Both Mr Mizak and Mr Hen-ry have links with the Recon-naissance Group, which isbased in Ballsbridge in Dublinand which provides security ser-vices to clients doing businessin emerging markets.

Reconnaissance has an asso-ciation with Mr O’Brien’s Carib-bean telecoms group, Digicel,to which it has provided riskmanagement and security ser-vices, most notably in Haiti. It

shares an address with Digicelin its capital, Port-au-Prince.

A listed company, INM is theState’s largest newspaper pub-lisher, employing nearly 200journalists. It publishes the Sun-day Independent, Irish Inde-pendent, Sunday World andEvening Herald, among others.

MrBuckleywas asked

what benefit INMreceived, andwhopaid the bill

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MARTINWALLIndustryCorrespondent

Doubts have emerged aboutwhether a Government prom-ise to appoint 1,800 additionalfrontline health service staffnext year will be realised.

Minister for Finance PaschalDonohoe said in his Budgetspeech in October that in-creased exchequer fundingwould allow for 1,800 addition-al staff to be recruited, “aimed

at a range of frontline servicesacross the acute, mental health,disability, primary and commu-nity care sectors”.

But the HSE has said it is tooearly to say how many peoplewill be taken on.

“Community healthcare or-ganisations and hospitalgroups are currently workingon their workforce require-ments for the coming year,” theHSE told The Irish Times.

“However, a large propor-

tion of new development fund-ing identified in the service planwill be used to recruit newstaff,” it continued.

GovernmentclarificationSiptu health division organiserPaul Bell said the HSE com-ments give rise to doubts aboutwhether the 1,800 extra staffwould be recruited. He said theGovernment needed to clarifyits intentions.

He said the Government also

had to bear in mind the numberof staff who were leaving thepublic health service in Ireland.

He said the term “additionalstaff” had to mean that morepeople were employed.

The doubts emerged as anew report was submitted toMinister for Health Simon Har-ris saying progress in imple-menting many recommenda-tions aimed at overcoming bar-riers to the recruitment and re-tention of doctors in Irish hospi-

tals remained slow and uneven.A new report has identified

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The stand-off between theState’s corporate watchdog,the Office of the Director ofCorporate Enforcement(ODCE), and INM’s chairmanLeslie Buckley – over a legaldemand from the ODCE fordocuments held by Buckley –has its genesis in a bitterboardroom bust-up at thecompany.

That spiralling row sparkeda State investigation of INMduring which the ODCE hasdiscovered that cybersecurityexperts engaged by Buckleyfacilitated outside access to thecompany’s IT system.

The crux of the case is thatthe ODCE wants to know whoauthorised this access to thenewspaper publisher’s internalIT systems; why was it grantedand was it for the benefit of thecompany; and who ultimatelypaid the bill.

The row that sparked thewhole affair first began early in2016 when Buckley and INM’sthen-chief executive, RobertPitt, fell out over a proposal forthe company to buy Newstalk.

The radio station is ownedby Buckley’s friend and closeassociate, Denis O’Brien, whois also INM’s biggest sharehold-er with almost 30 per cent.Buckley is O’Brien’s representa-tive on INM’s board.

In effect, O’Brien had a stake

on both sides of the proposedNewstalk deal. INM’s chiefexecutive refused to meet theasking price sought by O’Brienfor the radio station, leading tothe fallout between Pitt andBuckley.

The row led Pitt to make awhistleblower complaint aboutBuckley to the ODCE, whichcommenced an investigationinto the company’s corporategovernance under companylaw.

PotentialdatabreachIn the course of this investiga-tion, the ODCE uncovereddetails of a “potential databreach” at INM, broadening itsinquiries beyond Newstalk’sprice tag row.

The watchdog has wide-rang-ing powers to demand filesfrom directors, and it haszeroed in on Buckley’s knowl-edge of the outside access toINM’s IT systems.

The ODCE quickly estab-lished that Trusted DataSolutions, a UK technologycompany, gained access toINM’s internal systems. OnAugust 11th, the watchdogasked Buckley what he knewabout it, why it happened, andwho paid for it.

Buckley, who is not involvedin the day-to-day running ofINM, explained to the ODCEthat there was a “cost reduc-tion exercise” at the companyand he sought “technicaladvice” for this exercise fromDerek Mizak, a cybersecurityexpert.

Buckley says he was intro-duced to Mizak by John Henry,a former army officer who hasprovided security services forO’Brien’s companies andBuckley in Haiti. Both Mizakand Henry are linked toReconnaissance Group, whichprovides counterintelligenceservices, such as sweeping

boardrooms for listening bugs.Buckley says Mizak recom-

mended the appointment of a“specialist IT company” for the“cost-reduction exercise” hesays INM was engaged in. Itseems this outside contractorwas TDS, which specialises inthe restoration and conversionof databases.

In its August 11th letter, theODCE directly asked Buckley“who granted TDS access to[INM’S] IT systems... and howINM Plc benefited from theservices”.

It asked Buckley who settledthe TDS invoice, and it alsoasked him to identify “anyother persons likely to be in aposition to assist” the watch-dog.

StatutorydemandFive days later, Buckleyresponded to the ODCEexplaining his position. InOctober, the ODCE then madea statutory demand to Buckleyunder company law, compel-ling him to provide it withdocuments.

By this stage, Buckley was

being advised on the matter byhis own personal lawyers, andnot INM’s company lawyers.INM says it has “co-operatedfully” with the watchdog andhas already told it everythingthat it knows.

In mid-November, Buckleyresponded to the statutorydemand by producing 250records from a review of40,000 separate documents“going back two years”. Thissuggests the outside access toINM’s IT systems happened in2015.

SealedcabinetOf the 250 documents, Buckleyclaimed legal privilege over 11of them, including 10 emailsbetween him, his lawyers andMizak. They were supplied tothe ODCE in a sealed packagethat has yet to be opened by thewatchdog.

The ODCE followed itsprocedures by locking thepackage in a sealed cabinet inits Dublin headquarters, andon November 23rd it went tothe High Court to ask it toadjudicate on whether Buck-ley’s claim of privilege wasvalid.

The case is due back beforethe High Court on January22nd. It is expected that MrJustice Peter Kelly, the presi-dent of the High Court, will atsome point open the sealedpackage and assess for himselfwhether the claim of legalprivilege made by Buckley isvalid.

INM refused to comment ondetailed queries from The IrishTimes,which included whetherits management had author-ised access to its IT systems andwhether executives knewanything about the “costreduction exercise”.

Mr Buckley made no re-sponse to queries on the matterfrom this newspaper.

ANNELUCEY

“Substantial damages” werepaid to a woman whosebreast cancer was missedand her diagnosis delayed be-cause of errors in the radiolo-gy department in UniversityHospital Kerry, it hasemerged.

The misdiagnosis tookplace two years before thecurrent review, which got un-der way in October. The casewas settled in September.

A major review of the peri-od between March 2016 andJuly 2017 is ongoing. A teamof external radiologists ismidway through a search ofmore than 46,000 scans,X-rays and ultrasound exami-nation imagery at the hospi-tal involving almost 27,000patients after seven seriouscancer misdiagnoses came tolight this summer.

However, Tralee solicitorDamien Cashell has con-firmed that as part of the pro-ceedings he was involved in,systems failings in the radiol-ogy department going backto 2014 were identified andwere to be rectified.

The delay in his client’s di-agnosis meant the cancerhad advanced significantlyand his client is still undergo-ing treatment, although shehad been given the all-clear.

Her reason for bringingthe case was to ensure sys-tems would change and shewas devastated to learn thisweek that problems persist-ed, Mr Cashell said.

“A full internal investiga-tion took place which ac-knowledged the failings inthe system. High Court pro-ceedings issued and the casesettled,” he said. “ Unfortu-nately, it appears that thiscase and others like it did notprompt sufficient change.”

“It is a very unfortunateset of circumstances forthose involved and it high-lights how the system andthose working in it are over-stretched,” he said.

The solicitor added that

while the hospital appearedto be doing everything in itspower to remedy matters,the errors were affectinglives in a serious way. Thescan in question was not readcorrectly, and his client wasgiven the all-clear. Therewere problems with filingand notification, he said.

SevenmisdiagnosesThe current review, which isone of the biggest ever in theState, concerns the work of aconsultant radiologist who isno longer working at the hos-pital, but who was a locumworking full- time there dur-ing the review period.

Seven serious cancer caseswere found to be missed ormisdiagnosed and the threethat raised alarm became ap-parent within a short time ofeach other in late July.

As of Thursday, 34 pa-tients have been recalled forrepeat scans and ultrasoundprocedures but no major dis-crepancy has been found.

The errors recorded so farare well below the acceptedrange of 3-5 per cent for indi-vidual radiologists.

Meanwhile, there are per-sistent questions over theworkload on the radiologistconcerned. Public represent-atives have warned against“scapegoating” an individu-al.

The workload equated to150 reports a day or 3,000 amonth. If all five consultantradiologists performed at thesame rate everyone in Kerrywould be scanned, the TDDanny Healy-Rae said.

Radiographers’ represent-atives have also warnedabout major staffing prob-lems in the department.

The HSE has confirmedthat radiologists, rather thanradiographers who are notdoctors, regularly carry outultrasounds at the hospitalbecause of the volume ofwork and “backlog”.

The HSE has defended thesize of the radiology team –there were five consultant ra-diologists – at the Kerry hospi-tal, saying it is commensu-rate with the needs of anacute hospital of its size. How-ever, it has also conceded at abriefing that radiology workwas being outsourced due towork pressure.

The delaymeant her

cancer hadadvanced and sheis undergoingtreatment,although shehad been giventhe all-clear

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Friends Michael O’Sullivan(58) and Matt Murphy (85),who said they would marry toavoid taxes, went through withthe ceremony yesterday at theRegistry Office on Grand CanalStreet in Dublin.

The event was followed witha meal for the wedding party offive, including a harpist, at thenearby Gasworks Bar in theGrand Canal Hotel.

Mr O’Sullivan had been mar-ried previously but is divorced.He has three children, all nowadults. It is Mr Murphy’s firstmarriage.

Both are heterosexual and,while they have been goodfriends for almost 30 years –and Mr O’Sullivan is now MrMurphy’s carer – they have mar-ried to avoid paying inheritancetax on the death of either party.

The marriage is “perfectlylawful”, as former minister forjustice, attorney general, andsenior counsel Michael Mc-Dowell has said.

During the wedding ceremo-

ny Mr O’Sullivan spoke of MrMurphy’s never-ending kind-ness.

For his part Mr Murphy sangWillie Nelson’s Let theWorld Go By, a song aboutfriendship, which has the fol-lowing lyrics:

“With someone like you a palgood and true / I’d like to leaveit all behind and go and find / Aplace that’s known to Godalone.”

“I love Matt and he loves me,as friends,” Mr O’Sullivan,from Stoneybatter, said afterthe marriage ceremony.

BigsecretTheir story came to light lastweek when Mr Murphy rangLiveline. He was fed up listen-ing to all the negativity on thephone-in show and wanted topraise the Mater hospital,where he has been well caredfor over recent years.

Speaking to a researcher,one thing led to another and hedecided to let the programmein on a secret.

“I want to let you in on a little

secret,” he said. “I’m 85 and I’mplanning to get married onFriday to avoid tax.”

He still only wanted to talk toJoe about how wonderful theMater is. By the time the pro-gramme got back to him he was

in the Pound Shop at Phibsbor-ough. The first thing Joe askedhim about was getting marriedto avoid paying inheritance tax.And he told the nation while sit-ting on a stool in the PoundShop.

They had planned to marryin Cashel, Mr Murphy’s home-town, but the humanist solemn-iser got cold feet. He becameconcerned about the legality of

such a wedding and withdrew.So they rang the Registry Of-

fice on Grand Canal Street.“You want to get married

next Friday? Are you serious?People make appointmentshere months in advance,” theywere told.

Later in the week they got acall to say a slot was available at1pm yesterday.

RegistryOfficeSo along they went, twogrooms, two witnesses, and aharpist – because someone atthe Registry Office suggestedthey might like to have somemusic, while also remindingthem to bring two rings.

Mr Murphy found them inhis house and, as luck wouldhave it, both fitted perfectly,“fortuitously”, as Mr O’Sullivanput it.

Both had worked at Eircom,Mr Murphy as a telephonist andMr O’Sullivan as a computertechnician, but he is now an ac-tor. The bank took his apart-ment during the recession andfor a time he stayed with anoth-

er friend, Paul Redmond, be-fore Mr Murphy, who had livedon his own for 50 years, askedhim to move in as his health andsight were failing.

Mr O’Sullivan has per-formed as James Connolly inthe Eugene McCabe playPull Down a Horseman, atwo-hander with Declan Bren-nan as Pádraig Pearse. In Febru-ary last year, they performed itin the State Rooms at Áras anUachtaráin before PresidentMichael D Higgins, Sabina Hig-gins, Eugene McCabe and hiswife, Margot.

“There was a fantastic discus-sion afterwards,” Mr O’Sulli-van recalled.

He is off to London this even-ing to visit relatives for Christ-mas but has arranged for MrMurphy to be well looked afteruntil he returns early in 2018.

JACKPOWERinTibnin, Lebanon

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar criti-cised US president DonaldTrump’s decision to move theAmerican embassy in Israel toJerusalem as a “misstep” andthe “wrong long-term deci-sion” for the region.

Speaking yesterday afterthe United Nations voted tocondemn the unilateral actionby the US to recognise Jerusa-lem as the capital of Israel, MrVaradkar said the move wouldmake a peaceful settlement inthe region “very hard to se-cure”. Mr Varadkar said thedecision “will stoke up tensionin this region”, and had al-ready provoked protests. Hewas speaking while visitingIrish peacekeeping troops insouth Lebanon, who are serv-ing at the border of Israel.There have been protests inLebanon and in Gaza follow-ing the US policy shift.

“I think America having tak-en such a strong position andsuch a one-sided decision in re-cent weeks doesn’t make it eas-ier to get back to the kind of ne-gotiations that brought usvery close to a lasting settle-ment in the last 20 years” hesaid. Ireland voted along with127 other countries to con-demn the US action on Thurs-day night. Mr Varadkar said“Ireland had no reservationswhatsoever voting as we did inthe UN”, as Mr Trump’s deci-sion was the “wrong ap-proach”.

RecognisingPalestineIreland was “open” to formal-ly recognising Palestine as astate, but the recognitionshould come as part of anEU-wide agreement, Mr Var-adkar said. The EU could playthe role of honest broker inhelping find a solution wherethe Israelis and Palestinianscould “coexist”. Due to ten-sions in the region the “condi-tions at the moment aren’tright” for any viable settle-ment.

Yesterday, Mr Varadkar vis-

ited the Irish peacekeepingforces serving in the UN mis-sion in south Lebanon, andlaid a wreath at a memorial inTibnin that commemoratesthe 47 Irish troops who havedied in the country.

Capt Eoin Troy, speaking ata short ceremony, said theIrish soldiers had “made the ul-timate sacrifice in the questfor world peace”. Tibnin isclose to a former Irish peace-keeping base, and the localLebanese community stillholds a ceremony at the memo-rial once a month to remem-ber the fallen Irish troops.

FortyyearsMr Varadkar visited UN Post2-45 where the main Irishforce is based, along withtroops from Finland and Esto-nia. Next year will mark the40th anniversary of the firstdeployment of Irish troopsinto the country, when the UNmission began in 1978.

The visiting group receiveda briefing on the Irish area ofoperations, which is patrolleddaily and covers 11 villages,most inhabited by Shia Mus-lims. Minister of State with Re-sponsibility for Defence PaulKehoe, Irish Ambassador toEgypt Sean O’Regan and De-fence Forces chief of staffMark Mellett also travelled.

The last major conflict inthe region was a short war in2006 between Hizbullah andIsrael, and previously thecountry was engulfed in a bru-tal civil war from 1975 to 1990.But luxury mansions and Leba-nese summer homes now dotmany of the hills near the UNbase. The local relationshipwith the Irish troops is over-whelmingly positive; childrenwave to the white armouredcarriers as they pass, with theIrish troops enthusiasticallyreturning the gesture.

Addressing the Irish troops,Mr Varadkar said the peace-keeping mission in Lebanon isone “that Irish people havegrown up with over the years”and are aware and “immense-ly proud of”.

USdecisiononmovingembassy‘wrong’

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Theyhad planned

tomarry in Cashel,MrMurphy’shometown, butthe humanistsolemnisergot cold feet

■Matt Murphy (85) andMichael O’Sullivan (58) whogotmarried in Dublinyesterday to avoid inheritancetax. PHOTOGRAPH: COLLINS

■ Leslie Buckley facilitatedoutside access to thecompany’s IT system

TaoiseachcriticisesUSpresident’s‘misstep’ during trip toLebanon

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