1995:Esat Digifone wins mobile phone licence competition.

July/October 1996:£150,000 is sent from a Denis O'Brien account in the Isle of Man to the account of the late David Austin in Jersey. Most of the money is subsequently used to open an account in the Isle of Man in the name of Michael Lowry.

The money is returned to Austin on the day the McCracken tribunal is established in 1997.

O'Brien later tells the Moriarty tribunal that he gave the money to Austin for a house in Spain. Lowry says he borrowed the money from Austin and then gave it back.

December 1996:Michael Lowry resigns as minister for transport, energy and communications, after a newspaper report about renovations to his home being paid for by Dunnes Stores.

August 1998:Doncaster Rovers Football Club Ltd is bought for £4.3 million sterling in a deal fronted by O'Brien's accountant, Aidan Phelan.

The solicitor acting for the purchaser is Christopher Vaughan.

December 1998/March 1999:Lowry pays a £25,000 sterling deposit on a site in Mansfield, England.

The balance to close the deal, £230,000 sterling, comes from a London account of O'Brien and is sourced by Phelan, who says it is money owed to him.

Vaughan is the solicitor acting for the purchasers.

December 1999:Phelan secures a loan of £420,000 for Lowry from Dublin bank GE Capital Woodchester, now Investec, to close a second property deal in

England, this time in Cheadle, again involving Lowry. Vaughan again acts as solicitor.

2001:Tribunal begins inquiries into Cheadle and Mansfield transactions, following the receipt of information from Investec Bank.

2004:Tribunal begins inquiries into the Doncaster transaction, but the inquiry is halted by a High Court challenge from Denis O'Brien.