Declan Ganley
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Declan Ganley is a businessman and founder of the Irish anti-Lisbon Treaty pressure group Libertas.
Ganley first mooted the idea for Libertas in Watch on the West, a journal of the Foreign Policy Research Institute's Centre for the Study of America and the West.[1]
Ganley's neoconservative connections have become something of a target for pro-Lisbon politicians in Ireland and Brussels.[2]
US Defence industry links
Ganley is a director of Rivada Industries.
- At the time of the 2006 magazine article, Ganley told The Sunday Business Post that Rivada had contracts with the US Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security and individual American states. I don't want to disclose any more than that," he said, refusing to comment on his investment in the firm, or its financial performance.
- The board of Rivada includes figures with strong US military links, including former Homeland Security secretary Admiral James Loy, former Marine Forces Lieutenant General Dennis McCarthy, and John Kelly, who was president of defence firm Bell Textron.[3]
References
- ↑ Europe’s Constitutional Treaty: A Threat to Democracy and How to Avoid It, by Declan J. Ganley, Watch on the West: A Newsletter of FPRI’s Center for the Study of America and the West, Volume 4, Number 5, December 2003 .
- ↑ [Get Ganley!], by Mark Mardell, BBC News, 10 October 2008.
- ↑ Ganley business interests stretch far and wide, Sunday Business Post, 15 June 2008.
