REVEALED: secret Siteserv email to Kenny will be probed by state

● Decision to investigate anonymous claims will be politically controversial ● Contents of ‘DOB email’ described as ‘cowardly’ and ‘spurious’ by IBRC

An email sent to the then taoiseach Enda Kenny at the height of the Siteserv crisis is to be formally investigated by the state's IBRC Commission, in a move that will see it examine a string of new anonymous allegations about the purchase of the company by the telecoms tycoon Denis O’Brien.

The decision by the commission to probe anonymous allegations sent to Kenny and others will cause consternation politically, as the state ...