Minister claims Libertas spent €3m on Lisbon no campaign

EUROPE Minister Dick Roche has claimed Libertas spent up to €3 million on its campaign opposing the Lisbon treaty in the run-up to last month’s referendum.

Mr Roche is calling on the group and its chairman Declan Ganley to “come clean” about how much it spent on their campaign and where the funding came from.

It has emerged that Libertas paid €912,753 on commercial advertising in places such as newspapers, bill boards and buses. The figure came from the Institution of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland.