Ganley attempts to muzzle Irish media again. Voters will show him what they think of his fake law actions on June 5th

In a week when Declan Ganley has dropped his lawsuit against the Village magazine which covered much the same ground as RTEs Primetime show, Declan Ganley has tried to silence TV coverage of his dodgy past by issuing proceedings against RTE the Irish National broadcaster. It is clear that he fears part two hitting the air before June 5 elections. It is also a cynical electioneering ploy as he can now say that he is suing. He waited long enough. This is yet another scam by Ganley who constantly issues spurious writs that he later backs out of in order to silence or cow opponents and journalist.

This blogger predicts that he will NEVER allow these proceedings to end up in a court room. Read the full Village article Here
Watch the Primetime show or here
RTE obviously feel his action is politically motivated and fear not his bullying as they still host the program on their site.

The Sunday Times has got one part of their story wrong The Village did a deal with Ganley but Ganley never fulfilled his part and STILL backed out of the action despite editor Michael Smith asserting that Ganley had not fulfilled his pact in an article called Declan Ganley Liar in the following issue gives several more examples of Ganley lying. After the publication of this article Ganley chickened out and dropped his law action .

Irish voters will no doubt use their democratic mandate and show Ganley that they value freedom of the press more than a litigious bullying millionaire with dubious funding and a dodgy past.

The Sunday Times

May 3, 2009

Prime Time is sued by Ganley

The Libertas leader and European election candidate has lodged a defamation case against RTE in the High Court

Mark Tighe

DECLAN GANLEY, an independent candidate in the European elections, has lodged a defamation case against RTE.

The Libertas leader, who is running in the North West constituency, is suing over an edition of the Prime Time Investigates show which examined his past.

The Galway-based businessman, who was interviewed on the programme, had threatened legal action soon after the show was broadcast last November. Proceedings were only issued last Tuesday in the High Court.

John McGuirk, a spokesman for Libertas, said the delay in filing papers was to “allow the lawyers to review the programme”. He claimed: “There were factual inaccuracies and things were said that were false.”

He said the case had nothing to do with the balance of the programme, which was the subject of a complaint to the Broadcasting Complaints Commission. The authority ruled in favour of RTE and said there was no evidence of editorial bias.

RTE News and Current Affairs said: “Prime Time fully stands over everything that was broadcast. We won’t comment further because it is a legal matter.”

The programme, which is still available on the RTE website, tracked Ganley’s business dealings in Latvia, Albania and America.

Opponents of Libertas have accused Ganley of making “phoney” legal threats to silence his critics. He has publicly threatened a number of politicians with legal actions after they made allegations that he is funded by the American military complex.

Last February he sued Ormand Quay Publishing, publishers of Village magazine, over an article entitled The Beginning of the End for Declan Ganley. As part of a settlement, Village agreed it should have interviewed Ganley before making serious allegations against him.