Declan Ganley My Part in His Downfall?

Declan Ganley announced last night that he will not contest a second Lisbon referendum if he fails be elected to the European parliament in June.
For several months this blogger has sought an interview with Mr Ganley to discuss his less than transparent and entirely dubious private affairs and connections. Though the initial response from Libertas's Anita Kelly was that Mr. Ganley was considering my request, Libertas stopped responding to my emails and I deemed the request denied .

Yesterday at 03:44 am I sent an outline of some very serious allegations that I stated I would publish at noon on 8 April but I stated I wished Mr. Ganley would respond before I published them and that I wished to afford him a right of reply. At 09.36 am on the 8 April Peoplekorps@gmail.com received a response from Libertas stating

"Declan Ganley has agreed to a talk with you, face to face. Agree?
Can you send me a contact number to arrange a time? I'll be out of the office for a while and will have patchy internet service.
".

I responded elaborating the terms that I would be willing to engage in such an interview and as yet have received no response from Libertas Eu.



Later on the same evening, 8 April 2009, Mr. Ganley stated that he would not contest a Lisbon II referendum if he did not win a seat in the parliament in June.

According to an eyewitness who posted on Politics.ie Here

He said it this evening at an event in the Davenport Hotel.

During the course of the event he also levied a serious allegation at Dick Roche at which point shouts of hearsay where pointed at him from the audience. He basically said that over dinner in the Four Seasons a member of the Czech Government told him that it was Irish Government policy to try and isolate Ireland as much as possible within Europe. When a member of the audience asked him to substantiate this comment (under for instance, a freedom of information request) he retorted "the truth hurts" at which point he really lost the audience. Eventually he even said perhaps Dick Roche wasn't there and he was just going on what the Czech's told him....

Later in response to a journalist's question he stated he would not run if he were not elected as an MEP. According to political pundits in Ireland it is very unlikely that Mr. Ganley can win the seat he is contesting in the North West constituency.




I wonder are these matters connected?

Libertas Nein Danke author People Korps has received no clarification from Libertas spokesperson Anita Kelly that his conditions for an in depth interview will be agreed to by Mr. Ganley. In light of these developments I have forwarded the substance and basis of my revelations to several journalists in the mainstream media and I will leave in their hands to pursue this story for the moment and in the public interest.

Email peoplekorps@gmail.com and please provide full details and telephone numbers and email addresses of your news organisations if you wish to have further information with view to further enquiries.

On a personal basis I hope that Mr. Ganley will withdraw from political life forthwith.

People Korps the blogger 9 April 2009 4.49 am

Irish Minister Roche says Libertas campaign based on "spin, deception and hypocrisy"

You may have seen the post of this weekend about Raymond O'Malley, the former representative of Irish farmers who has "put his reputation on the line" for Declan Ganley and Libertas.

It seems that O'Malley, like Declan Ganley, is not only a hypocrite; he is also now campaigning against the interests of the farmers he used to represent.
The below is just released by the Irish Minister of European Affairs, Dick Roche, whose Wicklow constituency is within the Leinster European constituency that O'Malley is contesting for the far right Libertas party.

Libertas Election Campaign will be built on spin, deception and hypocrisy - says Roche.

“It is becoming increasingly obvious that the Libertas campaign in the upcoming European elections will be based on spin, deception and hypocrisy”. Minister for European Affairs Dick Roche told a Fianna Fail meeting in Baltinglass last night.

“In recent days, we have seen the campaign launch by two of the announced Libertas candidates. Both campaign launches were long on rhetoric and short on policy detail. Both were used to recycle the same untruthful lines peddled by Libertas in last year’s referendum”.

Declan Ganley and Raymond O’Malley both spoke about openness, transparency and democracy. Neither are prepared to practice what they preach. Libertas has still to provide responses to questions raised by the standards in Public Office Commission regarding the funding of its campaign in last years referendum.

In both campaign launches, Libertas has pedalled the same old myths regarding democracy and the European Union. Both campaign launches repeated the jaded old lie that decisions in Europe are made by nameless bureaucrats. Decisions in the European Union are made by the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament. Both have democratic mandates.

Under the terms of the Lisbon Treaty, democracy in the European Union will be further extended, by giving new powers in European law making to National Parliaments.

The launch of the campaign of the Libertas candidate for the East constituency brings a new element into the picture – rank hypocrisy. The candidate, Mr. O’Malley who spent years lobbying in Brussels, is now complaining about the role of lobbyists. Organisations such as Trade Unions, Farming Associations and Social Interest Groups play a legitimate role in policy making. In his previous existence, Mr. O’Malley would have defended the rights of the IFA to be heard in Brussels, now he questions the legitimacy of the very process in which he was engaged.

The most extraordinary hypocrisy, however, on O’Malley’s part is his lame defence of Declan Ganley’s savage attack on the common agriculture policy as a “weapon of mass destruction”. The common agriculture policy has pumped billions of euro into farming in this country and into Ireland’s rural economy. Ganley has made it clear that he wishes to fundamentally destroy that policy and it is bizarre that Raymond O’Malley now indicates a willingness to join him in that destruction.

If Libertas wants to be taken seriously in the forthcoming European election campaign, its time its representatives started to practice what it preaches.

O’Malley and Ganley could make a good start by injecting a degree of truthfulness into their campaign, by agreeing to be bound by the same rules as will apply to every other party and organisation contesting the election and by answering fundamental questions in relation to Libertas funding and the level of support it received in last years referendum campaign from euro-sceptics based outside Ireland and from the US defence contractor with whom Ganley has been operating.

Ends
24th March 2009.