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HARDtalk: Declan Ganley, founder and president, Libertas

07/04/2009

Declan Ganley, founder and president, Libertas

BBC News Channel - HARDtalk, Declan Ganley, founder and president, Libertas

The man behind the 'no' campaign in the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty speaks.

Jonathan Dimbleby talks to prospective MEP Declan Ganley, who led the 'no' campaign in the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, about Ireland and the global economic crisis.

Jonathan Dimbleby talks to Declan Ganley, the president of Libertas and the man who led the successful 'no' campaign in the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.

Ireland has been hit hard by the global economic crisis and there are fears its economy faces the same fate as Iceland's. This puts the focus sharply on not only the country's emergency budget, but on the upcoming European elections, in which Ganley hopes to win a seat in the European parliament.

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