The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by businessman Denis O'Brien against a High Court order allowing the Moriarty Tribunal to hold public hearings into the 1998 purchase of Doncaster Rovers Football Club.
The hearing is examining the purchase of the club by a company controlled by an O'Brien family trust.
It is also looking into the purported connection of the former minister, Michael Lowry, to the acquisition of the English soccer club.
In a majority decision, four of the five Supreme Court judges dismissed Mr O'Brien's challenge to the order which was made by the High Court last October.
