Libertas Chairman Declan Ganley announces intention to run in European Elections

[CookieMonster]

Tonight at The Glenlo Abbey Hotel Libertas Chairman Declan Ganley will announce his intention to run as a candidate in the 2009 European Elections.

From his election campaign leaflet:

Declan Ganley is a 40-year old entrepreneur living in Abbeyknockmoy, Co. Galway with his wife Delia and family. Declan's roots are in the west of Ireland. His father is from Glanamaddy, Co. Galway and his mother is from Dooega, Achill Island.

Declan Ganley is the only candidate in Ireland North West with proven record of job creation. As a businessman, he understands what many politicians do not: he knows what it takes to drive the economy forward and create employment.

With Declan Ganley representing you as a Member of the European Parliament for Ireland North West you can be assured of his dedication to important issues that effect you and your family;

Job creation and Economic Growth
Education
Health
Rural and Coastal Communities
Environment
Leaving No One behind
Working for you

(more information later)

And to flog the blog, more Libertas info here: http://www.politics.ie/blogs/cookiem...elections.html

[Lthse]

Tonight at The Glenlo Abbey Hotel Libertas Chairman Declan Ganley will announce his intention to run as a candidate in the 2009 European Elections.

From his election campaign leaflet:

Declan Ganley is a 40-year old entrepreneur living in Abbeyknockmoy, Co. Galway with his wife Delia and family. Declan's roots are in the west of Ireland. His father is from Glanamaddy, Co. Galway and his mother is from Dooega, Achill Island.

Declan Ganley is the only candidate in Ireland North West with proven record of job creation. As a businessman, he understands what many politicians do not: he knows what it takes to drive the economy forward and create employment.

With Declan Ganley representing you as a Member of the European Parliament for Ireland North West you can be assured of his dedication to important issues that effect you and your family;

Job creation and Economic Growth
Education
Health
Rural and Coastal Communities
Environment
Leaving No One behind
Working for you

(more information later)

And to flog the blog, more Libertas info here: http://www.politics.ie/blogs/cookiem...elections.html

Fair play to him, hope he gets elected!

However CK, I fear you have just held up some red meat for the rabid europhiles.

[CookieMonster]

Fair play to him, hope he gets elected!

However CK, I fear you have just held up some red meat for the rabid europhiles.

Pft, they're pretty pathetic and predictable lot...

[marmurr1916]

Tonight at The Glenlo Abbey Hotel Libertas Chairman Declan Ganley will announce his intention to run as a candidate in the 2009 European Elections.

From his election campaign leaflet:

Declan Ganley is a 40-year old entrepreneur living in Abbeyknockmoy, Co. Galway with his wife Delia and family. Declan's roots are in the west of Ireland. His father is from Glanamaddy, Co. Galway and his mother is from Dooega, Achill Island.

Declan Ganley is the only candidate in Ireland North West with proven record of job creation. As a businessman, he understands what many politicians do not: he knows what it takes to drive the economy forward and create employment.

With Declan Ganley representing you as a Member of the European Parliament for Ireland North West you can be assured of his dedication to important issues that effect you and your family;

Job creation and Economic Growth
Education
Health
Rural and Coastal Communities
Environment
Leaving No One behind
Working for you

(more information later)

And to flog the blog, more Libertas info here: http://www.politics.ie/blogs/cookiem...elections.html

We'd already heard about it, thanks anyway.

Now that he's a candidate, maybe some people on politics.ie can stop pretending that he's not a politician?

Also, it's been said that he was wise to tone down his Catholicism during the referendum campaign but that this would be an advantage for his candidacy.

However, anything he says during his candidancy is going to be used during the next referendum campaign, so maybe it wouldn't be such an advantage after all?

Any thoughts?

[setanta]

However, anything he says during his candidancy is going to be used during the next referendum campaign, so maybe it wouldn't be such an advantage after all?

Any thoughts?

No-hoper declares for Ireland NW constituency.

Interesting that Ganley's announcement comes on the same weekend when we hear that his much-vaunted call for transparency and accountablity in European politics does not extend to his organisation's legal requirement to conform with Standards in Public Office legislation and rules on campaign funding.

The point was made on a recent radio discussion of the euro-elections that Ganley is between a rock and a hard place. He has to run or his all-ready badly tarnished credibility will completely collapse, especially when the Lisbon Treaty is re-run. However, the very strong expectation that he will lose and lose badly in the European elections means that his credibility will be in tatters when he returns to his dishonest campaign tactics to try and prevent the Irish people ratifying Lisbon in the Autumn.

Coupled with the shambolic operations of Liebertas across Europe (flirtatons with hard-right loons and europhobes, trying to buy up a Swedish eurosceptic party, the farcical application for EP funding, etc) this is going to be an entertaining few months. Where's my popcorn?

[marmurr1916]

Fair play to him, hope he gets elected!

However CK, I fear you have just held up some red meat for the rabid europhiles.

And I hope that you won't claim any more that he's not a politician.

[Lthse]

And I hope that you won't claim any more that he's not a politician.

Eh, my point was that he wasn't from a political background, and if you read the statement it says the same thing.

[marmurr1916]

Eh, my point was that he wasn't from a political background, and if you read the statement it says the same thing.

Well then you shouldn't have said this, with no clarification whatsoever:

Ganley is a businessman not a politician.

And he's been involved in politics for many, many years. You don't have to be an elected politician to be politically active.

[marmurr1916]

Eh, my point was that he wasn't from a political background, and if you read the statement it says the same thing.

I've read that short statement posted by Cookie Monster. I wonder how many jobs Declan Ganley has created in Ireland?

We know he's created work for SIPO trying to figure out the murky finances of Libertas but that's not really the same thing as job creation.

[wysiwyg]

No-hoper declares for Ireland NW constituency.

Interesting that Ganley's announcement comes on the same weekend when we hear that his much-vaunted call for transparency and accountablity in European politics does not extend to his organisation's legal requirement to conform with Standards in Public Office legislation and rules on campaign funding.

The point was made on a recent radio discussion of the euro-elections that Ganley is between a rock and a hard place. He has to run or his all-ready badly tarnished credibility will completely collapse, especially when the Lisbon Treaty is re-run. However, the very strong expectation that he will lose and lose badly in the European elections means that his credibility will be in tatters when he returns to his dishonest campaign tactics to try and prevent the Irish people ratifying Lisbon in the Autumn.

Coupled with the shambolic operations of Liebertas across Europe (flirtatons with hard-right loons and europhobes, trying to buy up a Swedish eurosceptic party, the farcical application for EP funding, etc) this is going to be an entertaining few months. Where's my popcorn?

Do you reckon he'll beat the Labour candidate in NW Setanta ?

Really, for a Labour Party member, you're one of the most ignorant political posters I've ever come across.. you and Mc Cafferty Cat are well suited

No doubt he'll be along to this thread once he finds it with his own nasty brand of invective

Well done to any candidate who stands for election... have you the balls to do it Setanta ?