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| }}</ref> Back in Ireland, Ganley had owned the high-profile jewellery website, Adornis.com, which collapsed after the downturn in the technology sector. A 2006 interview in ''CNBC’s European Business magazine'' suggested Ganley had a personal worth of €300 million.<ref name="GavinDaly"/> | }}</ref> Back in Ireland, Ganley had owned the high-profile jewellery website, Adornis.com, which collapsed after the downturn in the technology sector. A 2006 interview in ''CNBC’s European Business magazine'' suggested Ganley had a personal worth of €300 million.<ref name="GavinDaly"/> | ||
| Recent media reports, highlighted during his 'No' to the Lisbon Treaty campaign, have questioned the financial sources of the campaign, who are his donors and what is the real motive of his campaign. In April, 2008 Libertas announced that Ulick McEvaddy was "joining the No To Lisbon Campaign". McEvaddy, like Ganley, has links to the US military. Both men are CEOs of US based companies (Omega Air and Rivada Networks) that supply equipment to the US military. | |||
| His financial sources have been questioned. He says it comes from contributions.<ref> interview at timesonline.co.uk</ref> In April, 2008 Libertas announced that Ulick McEvaddy was "joining the No To Lisbon Campaign". | |||
| == U.S Foreign Policy Research Institute== | == U.S Foreign Policy Research Institute== | ||
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Declan J. Ganley (born approx. 1968) is a UK born businessman and political activist. Ganley lives in Abbeyknockmoy, County Galway.
Business career
Ganley is currently chairman and CEO of Rivada Networks, a US defence contractor specializing in military telecom systems. In the past, he has been involved in business ventures selling Russian aluminium and in the Latvian forestry sector, where he was made a foreign affairs adviser after it gained independence in 1991. Back in Ireland, Ganley had owned the high-profile jewellery website, Adornis.com, which collapsed after the downturn in the technology sector. A 2006 interview in CNBC’s European Business magazine suggested Ganley had a personal worth of €300 million.
His financial sources have been questioned. He says it comes from contributions. In April, 2008 Libertas announced that Ulick McEvaddy was "joining the No To Lisbon Campaign".
U.S Foreign Policy Research Institute
Ganley's wrote policy papers for an American think tank the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Libertas
Ganley is the founder and Chairman of Libertas, a lobby group advocating a no vote to the 2008 referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon in Ireland. Ganley's first mention of Libertas was in a paper Constitutional Treaty; A Threat to Democracy and How to Avoid it that he wrote for the U.S Foreign Policy Research Institute.
Libertas says it is funded by private donations, which is perfectly legal, though donations above a certain amount will have to be disclosed by the group after the referendum. According to the group, Ganley and his wife have already donated the maximum amount of €6,300.
Intimidation of Opponents
Green Party candidate Niall O'Brolchain accused Mr. Ganley of intimidating him during the 2007 general election. Mr. O'Brolchain complained that Mr Ganley's solicitor's representative's SUV, used when they were serving a High Court summons on him for his use of Mayoral resources to make an objection to a Galway City bypass, was intimidating .
References
- "Declan J. Ganley". www.rivada.com. Retrieved 2008-05-06.
- ^ Daly, Gavin (2006-03-19). "US magazine claims Ganley set to become billionaire". The Sunday Business Post.
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Ganley, Declan (December 2003). "Europe's Constitutional Treaty: A Threat to Democracy and How to Avoid It". Foreign Policy Research Institute. Retrieved 2008-05-30.
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"Libertas and its letters from Austria". The Sunday Business Post. 2008-05-25.
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Ganley, Declan (December 2003). "Europe's Constitutional Treaty: A Threat to Democracy and How to Avoid It". Foreign Policy Research Institute. Retrieved 2008-05-30.
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"Libertas and its letters from Austria". The Sunday Business Post. 2008-05-25.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - http://www.independent.ie/national-news/businessman-wrecked-my--dail-campaign-1280708.html
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