How did they spent 5.6 million euro?

revell

Ganley group spent €5.6m in election and referendum year

COLM KEENA, Public Affairs Correspondent

THE LIBERTAS Institute, the organisation run by the anti-Lisbon Treaty campaigner Declan Ganley, spent €5.65 million in 2009, the year its founder ran unsuccessfully for the European Parliament and campaigned in the second Lisbon Referendum.
The institute had an income that year of €3.2 million, according to accounts filed recently for 2009 and 2010.
Most of the income is believed to have come from donations although the accounts do not say this. Ireland’s largest political parties would not have war chests of comparable size.

further reading

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2011/1222/1224309381214.html

orourkeda

Is it public money?

44leto

What and who are libertas

I somehow associate them with SPECTRE.

sheesh

having not read the article I'm assuming at least a million was spent on buying cute kittens or puppies.

which they then would stamp on :D

Dukers

LIBERTAS was intended to be a pan european organisation. They ran a couple of hundred candidates across Europe that year, that would explain how spending reached that level.

orourkeda

44leto wrote: »

What and who are libertas

I somehow associate them with SPECTRE.

Whats that?

revell

In the same news report
"The amounts in the accounts compare with the €1.5 million believed to have been spent by Fine Gael in the last general election, and the €500,000 Fianna Fáil spent in the second Lisbon referendum in 2009."

:eek:

ThePower11

*Spend

sensibleken

amputee hookers are expensive due to their rarity

revell

Dukers wrote: »

LIBERTAS was intended to be a pan european organisation. They ran a couple of hundred candidates across Europe that year, that would explain how spending reached that level.

I heard about this party for the first time from today's news paper. Why does it have European ambition? Anyone knows more about it?

Chuck Stone

They spent the money on the crying child.

Crying children don't come cheap these days I tell thee.

Ellis Dee

What with the Irish taxpayer on the hook for at least 90 billion and possibly a few gazillion if we only knew the full truth of it, what's a measly 5.6 million? I'd spend that on a dirty weekend if I had it.:rolleyes::rolleyes:

ThePower11

Ellis Dee wrote: »

What with the Irish taxpayer on the hook for at least 90 billion and possibly a few gazillion if we only knew the full truth of it, what's a measly 5.6 million? I'd spend that on a dirty weekend if I had it.:rolleyes::rolleyes:

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