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Thu 08 Aug 2003Desmond tribunal appeal fails in courtThe businessman Mr Dermot Desmond has failed in his High Court bid to restrain the Moriarty tribunal from allowing reference to the 10-year-old Glackin Report, which was critical of his part in the purchase of the former Johnson Mooney & O'Brien site in Ballsbridge.Mr Desmond had claimed that such repeated references were damaging to his reputation and good name and that the report was irrelevant to the tribunal's investigation of decisions in the mid-1990s relating to the award of a second GSM phone licence to ESAT Digifone.