Ganley used London attacks to stress security

LIBERTAS founder Declan Ganley used the London terrorist attacks of July 2005 to stress the importance of a security conference he was hosting later that year.

However, the then justice minister Michael McDowell, declined an invitation to the conference, held in August 2005, because his officials believed it was “primarily a marketing-led exercise” for Mr Ganley’s company, Rivada Networks.

On July 8, 2005 — the day after the London bombings that killed 56 people — Mr Ganley wrote to those he had invited to the inaugural Forum on Public Safety in Europe and North America.