Law on referendum funding to change

REFERENDUM laws will be changed before the country next goes to the polls to ensure that any group or party campaigning will have to fully disclose where their funding comes from.

Environment Minister John Gormley said changes will be made to current referendum legislation to ensure complete transparency.

He was responding to revelations in yesterday’s Irish Examiner that Libertas founder and anti-Lisbon campaigner Declan Ganley has contracts worth more than €200 million with the US military.