Joeytheparrot wrote: » He is having a press launch on Thursday about how corrupt Ireland is and how he is Irelands Julian Assange in the Shelbourne (I dont think he sees any irony in harping on about a golden circle and hosting a meeting where many of Irelands elite would frequent)https://www.collegetimes.com/news/irish-corruption-142619
Murrisk wrote: » What's this now?
Joeytheparrot wrote: » I see Paddy is planning to launch himself as an anti corruption messiah next week.
kbannon wrote: » https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_fool_and_his_money_are_soon_parted
helimachoptor wrote: » Who is paying this money
serfboard wrote: » Nothing happened in Lisbon, and nothing happens in Lisbon which is why Paddy is coming back to Dublin with his tail between his legs. But he couldn't come back with the Web Summit - that would be a humiliating climbdown. Instead, he makes up a new conference, hoping that he'll get as much free media and unpaid volunteers as he got for the first one. Do I not welcome conferences and the spend they bring coming to Ireland? Course I do. Isn't this just typical Irish begrudgery against a "successful entrepreneur" then? Emm ... no. I don't have anything against successful entrepreneurs of any nationality, but Paddy revealed himself to be a knob with his petulant childish rattle-throwing. The fúckin eejit even thought that releasing his "demands" to the media would make him look good! Gobsh1te.
namloc1980 wrote: » Paddy and his Circus are coming back. Wonder what happened in Lisbon?
namloc1980 wrote: » Wtf is money Conf?
Bonavox wrote: » Different conference. Web Summit is still Lisbon, this is MoneyConf.
namloc1980 wrote: » .. Paddy and his Circus are coming back. Wonder what happened in Lisbon?
jmayo wrote: » That lad has some head on him. How he can equate a multi site event that runs over a period of a month to his one site few day conference.
osarusan wrote: » To be fair to the guy, if I am reading that article right, he was just saying that the event need not be fixed to one place, and lots of events are mobile and move from venue to venue, and gave the Rugby World Cup as one example. If so, and he didn't make the claim elsewhere, it's actually pretty crappy reporting.
he described winning back the event as being akin to securing the Rugby World Cup.
Mal-Adjusted wrote: » God, he never changes...
Bambi wrote: » He's announcing that their spambot has achieved sentience
murpho999 wrote: » Will it not be the announcement of the smaller Moneyconf moving to Dublin from Madrid as rumoured by the press?
The Irish-founded tech conference that started in Ireland in 2009 with less than 400 attendees and grew to about 40,000 by 2015, caused controversy when its upped and left for Portugal last year under a three-year deal. The summit, which attracted 53,056 attendees from over 166 countries in 2016, is expecting to draw 60,000 people to Lisbon this November. Web Summit also organises several other global technology events, including Collision in the US, Rise in Hong Kong and MoneyConf in Madrid.
VinLieger wrote: » Apparently theres gonna be some major announcement from them at lunchtime today, any bets for where its moving to apart from Dublin?
eviltimeban wrote: » "Trinity degrees are optional" :rolleyes:
touts wrote: » Irish Times making something out of a nothing comment. It might come to Dublin some time in the future or it might go to any of dozens of other cities. I don't think the Web Summit will be back on these shores anytime in the next decade if at all. All that interview proves is Paddy has had a bit of media interview training.
Sofiztikated wrote: » A big conference can be quite intricate, and most venues would rather a big bloody wedding than a big bloody conference. But he's not curing cancer.
murpho999 wrote: » How can organizing a conference be any more complicated than arranging a music festival or big bloody wedding. They just have to book speakers, and arrange facilities. They way they go as if the company is achieving something amazing is very galling.
