Declan Ganley

Entrepreneur, Patented Inventor, Chairman & CEO @RivadaNetworks & @RivadaSpace. Tweets in personal capacity.

[Declan Ganley @declanganley]

#FreeJimmyLai

[Tony Abbott @HonTonyAbbott]

A decade back, Australia did stop a wave of illegal migration by boat. But this was only doable because the executive government did not need the senate or the states’ approval to put Operation Sovereign Borders into practice, and Australia has no charter of rights that could routinely be invoked against it. By contrast, successive British governments have been unwilling to limit the scope of the European Convention on Human Rights.

“Take back control”: this gave Boris Johnson his mandate to complete Brexit in 2019 and it’s no less needed for domestic governance. Read my latest at The Tony Abbott Newsletter: https://t.co/b4aWucEQ0o

[Declan Ganley @declanganley]

Just a post to mark Armistice Day, 11-11-1918. The end of the beginning of what might yet prove to be Europe’s civilisational suicide. We have a lot to do to make sure European civilisation survives the attempt. Onward. ✝️

[AMASS @AMASSMOVEMENT]

Thank you, @declanganley, for continuing to highlight the burden being placed on our parish.

AMASS committee members spent much of today at GCC inspecting Heron Solar’s appeal. @OmnesCapital-backed @power_capital and its agent @GravisPlanning promote the benefits of their development while residents are left taking time off work and away from family, travelling to County Hall to examine printed documents still unavailable in full online.

Our inspection raised further questions. The appeal covering letter bears ACP receipt stamps dated 27 October and 4 November. The appeal deadline was 27 October. What was received “BY HAND” on 4 November - eight days later?

We have written to ACP’s CEO demanding confirmation that a valid appeal was lodged within time, an explanation of the second receipt stamp, and the legal basis for considering any later material.

We have also demanded complete public access and adequate time to respond. Two weeks elapsed before GCC received the appeal. Residents should not lose their opportunity to scrutinise it because documents are delayed or inaccessible.

PCRE and Gravis should understand this: making scrutiny difficult will not make it disappear. This community has already committed substantial time, money and effort to examining their proposal. We will continue.

Their claims will be tested. Discrepancies will be documented. Questions will be pursued.

A rural parish should never have to work this hard simply to see the case being advanced against the Council’s refusal.

Our letter to ACP’s CEO is attached.

[Declan Ganley @declanganley]

My thanks to you all for the enormous work you guys have done and are doing and of course that so many others throughout the parish have also been doing (and are doing) to defend our locality. None of us will ever forget the shoddy way our parish was treated by these massively resourced special interests that.

[Declan Ganley @declanganley]

These absentee SolarLords who had their planning permission denied for a massive solar plant in our parish are on the process of their appeal against the decision. Yet in this the age of AI, a private-equity-backed Solar developer wants our parish to believe it represents the future.

They are so trustworthy and high tech that here we are, examining almost 650 square feet of printed appeal drawings across the tables and floor of Galway County Council's office.

An Coimisiún Pleanála has an online appeal portal. Its website actively recommends electronic submission but the community facing this development still cannot access the complete drawings online. These Solar Lords and the PE fund’s backing them aren’t 85 year old non tech savvy farmers looking to build a disabled extension to their cottage.

In their appeal @GravisPlanning, acting for the @OmnesCapital PE-fund backed @power_capital Heron Solar, lectures us like a corporatised Gretta Thunberg on the importance of reducing emissions. Meanwhile, working people must leave their jobs, farms and families and travel into Galway to inspect its plans.

They have the professional teams. They have massive financial backing via @OmnesCapital. We get the travel, the lost working hours and the bill for defending our homes.

Against the history of this project, I regard this as a calculated thumb in the eye to a community that had the temerity to stand up to this powerful clique.

If digital copies were supplied, publish them. If they were not, PCRE and Gravis should explain why.

Spare us the sermons about sustainability while residents are left unfolding your vision of the future on an office floor.

[Javier Milei @JMilei]

MENSAJE PERFECTO.

[Rivada Space Networks @rivadaspace]

Connect with our Deputy CEO & Chief Program Officer Clemens Kaiser and Director of Sales Government Business (DACH) @thomas__laurent next week at @SpaceTechExpoEU in Bremen!

On 18 November, Clemens will join the "Interoperability in a Fragmented Europe" panel session, discussing the need for interoperable architectures, such as Rivada's #Outernet, to enhance collaboration, share intelligence, and access to allied satellites.

To arrange a meeting, please contact [email protected].

#SpaceTechExpo #SpaceTechExpoEurope

[Declan Ganley @declanganley]

From GCC offices right now. The drawings and maps are A0 (and not A1) - each one is 1.2m x 0.8m.

One of our parishioners has to stand on a chair with the map on the ground in order to get a photo of it with his phone.

[Declan Ganley @declanganley]

58 no. A0 maps is 58m2 of paper - or 624 ft2 in old money.

[Declan Ganley @declanganley]

@twiceasnice97 That’s quite the imagination you have there. We didn’t discuss anything else but I would expect that guy is very pro-legal immigration given the vacancies he can’t fill. I don’t know that but it would be my guess.

[Declan Ganley @declanganley]

Chatted with an owner of a contractor courier service yesterday evening. He was doing a late pick up at my office in County Galway. He asked me if I knew anyone locally that was looking for a job. He has 16 vacancies for courier drivers and can’t fill them. He said it’s the same situation for other delivery companies and there’s real pressure now in the run up to Christmas. I pressed him on why this was the case and he said that the dole and other benefits such as rent support are so good (including additional perks that when added up make it more valuable) that it’s not attractive for people to give up the free stuff and work. He gave me a figure for what the Irish dole adds up to per week, apparently paid in cash. The figure was higher than I find believable so I am not stating it here but if anyone knows for sure what it is, please feel free to put it in a reply.
Anyway, while you’d hope morality and duty would be enough, incentive clearly needs a recalibration and taxpayers some respect for how hard they have to work to earn what they have taken off them in taxes.

[Declan Ganley @declanganley]

The people running Jaguar are vandals to the magnificent inheritance they were given stewardship of. An inheritance built by the genius and gruelling work of those in the past. They destroyed one of the world’s greatest motoring marques. Hopefully, when it goes out of business, someone will buy the brand and rebuild Jaguar from scratch.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Jaguar’s new electric Type 01 is the most powerful car it has ever made. But the brand hasn’t made a profit for years. A rebrand two years ago struck many as ridiculous. If this bold new bet doesn’t work, it could be Jaguar’s last lap. Read why the British marque is in such trouble: https://t.co/QdEcgQ6FUj

[Declan Ganley @declanganley]

@BBBBBBBB_M1 @IrelandOCDS I can’t remember for sure now what it paid. As I say, I was glad to have the work, as unpleasant as the work itself was.

[Declan Ganley @declanganley]

@GionNewGion Cost of living reduction and reduction of the personal tax burden are the two ‘musts’.

[Declan Ganley @declanganley]

@9355821Curran The courier guy said something similar. People want cash in the hand jobs and to stay on the dole. ‘Cost of living’ etc.

[Declan Ganley @declanganley]

@David_aherne88 @TerrybleTim Yes, a parent staying at home to care for children or sick/elderly most certainly counts as work and not only that but in my opinion there is no more important work.

[Declan Ganley @declanganley]

It is the case. For those able to work, there is a moral duty to do so when work is available. This is a recognised rule of morality as old as time and across multiple traditions. In the Christian tradition, scripture places work in the human vocation before the Fall (Genesis 2:15), so as the ancient story goes, even in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve had to work. St. Paul is perhaps the most explicit: “if anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat”. Catholic teaching from Leo XIII’s recently much discussed ‘Rerum Novarum’, through to more recently, Pope St. John Paul II’s encyclical ‘Laborem Exercens’, affirms the same: Work shares in God’s creative activity, develops the person, supports the family and serves the common good. Natural reason comes to the same conclusion. Able-bodied people who can work but choose not to when accessible, paying jobs exist are sponging off the labour of others. That is not simply a private preference; it is a failure of duty. Being a good person includes doing one’s individual duty and meeting that responsibility rather than shifting the cost onto those who do. Not for nothing is ‘sloth’ listed as one of ‘The seven deadly sins’.

[Declan Ganley @declanganley]

Blimey.

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

UK counter-terror police arrest US Army member in espionage investigation linked to Russia
https://t.co/n7zTZUdFb6

[Declan Ganley @declanganley]

@VirgelTibbs @Hoopshead Yes, and for clarity, he is a guy I only met for the first time yesterday evening, I don’t know him as such.

[Declan Ganley @declanganley]

@David_aherne88 @TerrybleTim You’re wrong about that. There is a moral duty to work.

[Declan Ganley @declanganley]

@arleneseesit @KeithMillsD7 You’re probably right.