Is Paddy Cosgrove the biggest wanker in Ireland?

Be interesting to see who they put in to replace him as CEO. Assuming he stays on as majority shareholder he would want to be paying an absolute fortune for someone to step into that position. He's spent way too much time on social media attacking people and that usual means there's a large number of people ready to pounce when you inevitably wade in on a topic that will get you into trouble.

Yeah no they wont as the only reason Qatar wanted to get involved with him was he helped wash their image, much like the world cup and F1 did, which then gave them access to the western tech companies. Without that access hes useless to them.

Politicians commenting on politics, it is kind of their thing.

CEOs, getting political is clearly not their thing.

Depends who it is. Doesn't seem to bother Trumpy types or their fans.

A few posters from back in the day conspicuous by their absence here Brendan. Looking on from the shadows of course 😉

Prendeville was very lucky to escape charges on a technicality as he was neither in Irish or UK airspace at the time of his episode. If it happened post Me-too its doubtful his career would have survived. Saying that Red FMs a joke of a station.

He will now take up a 'Tim Allen' style role I'd imagine.

Well said, but if you want to point out an Irish politician for swallowing the Hamas propaganda and regurgitate it, I would point the finger at Mary Lou McD, who spoke in the dail and put her speech up on her facebook page about Israel "Carpet Bombing", in relation to the fire bomb in the car park at the Christian ( Anglican) hospital in Gaza, and she said hundreds died there and Israel believed it had the right to bomb hospitals etc. Even after the truth become clear and a photo emerged of the carpet bombing just consisting of some scorch marks in a car park and half a dozen burnt out cars, she has not apologised or corrected herself. Imagine being the rep. of SF ( whose military wing exploded 16,000 bombs, one of which for example, the Bishopsgate bomb, caused £700 million worth of damage) referring to and condemning an example "carpet bombing" by evil Israel, and it turned out to be a fire bomb in a car park?

Back to the thread title, She ( closely followed by Michael D.) is the biggest w**ker in Ireland, especially in a few years time if the CEOs ( many of who may have Jewish friends, relations etc) of Google, Meta, Siemens, Stripe, Meta etc etc decide Ireland is as undesireable a place to do business from as the web summit.

They could be out, quick as a flash.

They'll stay as long as they're making money out of Ireland. When it no longer makes financial sense to be based here, the circus will move on. When they do big business with shìtty regimes, the morals get left at the door.

Multinationals were slow enough to remove themselves from Russia, a horrible country headed up by a madman. A lot of them took their sweet time to break ties.

Rubbish. They did not stay in the summit as long as they were still making money out of the Summit. They withdrew because of Cosgroves comments.

You also forget the Irish domestic market is very small. And lots of other countries in the EU speak passable English now.

Mary Lou McD was specifically referring to the bombing of the hospital in Gaza as "carpet bombing". See her speech. It is noteable how her normally very active facebook page has gone very quiet, she has not corrected herself or apologised yet. No big surprise.

Here is what she said about 'carpet bombing':

Israeli bombing of Gaza has according the WHO has decimated Gaza's medical infrastructure:

Here is what she said about the bombing of the Al-Ahli hospital:

She does not blame Hamas or Israel but states that the 'bombing' (note she doesn't refer to it as being 'carpet bombed') shows that 'nowhere is safe in Gaza'.

You really should study the use of 'full stops' and 'different sentences' in the English language.

The neigbouring Arab countries do not want to let the Palestinians from Gaza in, because they would wreck their own countries too. Look at what happened when Jordan let Palestinians in.

So she got the explosion wrong in the car park of the hospital. Has she apologised yet, or clarified here speech on her facebook page, about "carpet bombing". Surely the military wing of SF in its day done enough bombing to be able to advise her on what carpet bombing was or is not, before she lectures others?

Has she called yet for the release of the 222 hostages kidnapped from Israel and held by Hamas in Gaza ?

Or does she still have a soft spot for those who kidnap people?