Has Paddy Cosgrave overstepped the mark?

He still owns the majority of the company even though he isn’t CEO so they can’t be seen to enrich him in anyway.

This conference was a relic, it only existed because of PC’s good connections through his family and friends. No one else’s would ever gotten it off the ground.

These companies were just looking for an excuse to quit it. They didn’t want to give PC an opportunity to lash out at them and for them to have to respond. This was the perfect time for them.

A few big global PR firms do PR for all these top companies. It was a well coordinated exercise for them to withdraw for the event with no consequences to them.

Do you think that is true anymore? These days, all one can see is creeping annexation of the West Bank.Palestinian farmers are constantly losing land.

Nations are capable of tremendous change, not least because the people who make the decisions die off fairly quickly. The vital ingredient for the possibility of future reconciliation is to preserve contiguous territory in the West Bank that could serve as a future state. Unfortunately, there are many in Israel who want to prevent that and are working to take nearly all the West Bank at the moment. If the possibility of a state disappears then Arab nations should offer Palestinians full citizenship and stop treating them as hostages.

I don’t want to get into a quagmire of competing histories; we know where that gets us in Ireland. We see the history of proposed deals very much from an Israeli/American lens in the West. If you listen to the Palestinians on those negotiations they have a very different take on what was really offered, esp. in the more recent ones.

A lasting settlement might take 50-100 years. I suspect the wave of Islamic hysteria may have waned by then but maybe not. If Israel paves the West Bank it settles the issue for centuries.

Sorry, your saying the Israelis kept their part of the bargain after Oslo 1 and 2? In what world 😂 They never returned occupied land, instead they took more!!

Yitzhak Rabin who signed for Israel was assassinated by the Israeli far right in 95 after Oslo 2. Israel’s current National Security Minister Itamar threatened him at the time, just before his death. Israel never wanted peace, they (the far right/nationalist Israelis) always wanted an excuse to wipe Palestine off the map.

Do people think at all before they post stuff on Linkedin? And working for an Israeli tech company? He who pays the piper calls the tune...

Why would they care about him “lashing out”? It isn’t like he would affect their profits.

Just looking to understand the thinking.

Also, how many people (Irish and others) lost their jobs when he moved it all to Lisbon?

Is this why folks here don’t like him?

Take a look at what people post on social media in general. They seem to forget it’s public. And I wouldn’t be confident about anonymity anywhere on the Internet, including here. Globalization is going to expose people to a different set of rules about what they can and cannot say. No doubt China is getting some useful ideas from this controversy.

These guys….who needs editors and experienced colleagues? They just get in the way of exposing ‘the truth’.

No wonder they ended up publishing the articles that they did, nobody would risk talking to them! All they could do is run stories from FOI requests they submitted.

A nobody junior minister that people in Meath would struggle to identify lied on a planning application 20 years ago. Stephen Donnelly (another nobody, who’ll be lucky to be re-elected) hasn’t paid his motor tax in 4 months (total liability of about €50).

Who cares??