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Web Summit quits Dublin

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  • #632
    kidneyfan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,279 ✭✭✭kidneyfan


    The Dept of Foreign Affairs correspondence with the IDA looks very odd.


  • #633
    Tivoli1300
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65 ✭✭Tivoli1300


    kidneyfan wrote: »
    The Dept of Foreign Affairs correspondence with the IDA looks very odd.

    It is indeed odd - why on earth should it matter to DFA - its a 3 day conference/ networking event, big yes, but not of huge importance to anyone other than the organisers.


  • #634
    TallGlass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,908 ✭✭✭TallGlass


    This is like a broken record, let him move it over there. Jaysis, never seen this fuss when the likes of Dell moved to Poland.


  • #635
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    TallGlass wrote: »
    This is like a broken record, let him move it over there. Jaysis, never seen this fuss when the likes of Dell moved to Poland.

    Eh, there was national uproar over that. And numerous mini documentaries etc. on Irish TV.


  • #636
    Emmy Unsightly Spoon
    Posts: 24,816 ✭✭✭✭ Emmy Unsightly Spoon


    Ruth Coppinger wants Kenny to Nationalise the Web Summit?


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  • #637
    TallGlass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,908 ✭✭✭TallGlass


    smash wrote: »
    Eh, there was national uproar over that. And numerous mini documentaries etc. on Irish TV.

    Well god save us if we have documentaries on this. Don't be giving Paddy ideas FFS.


  • #638
    TallGlass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,908 ✭✭✭TallGlass


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Ruth Coppinger wants Kenny to Nationalise the Web Summit?

    Might aswell nationalise Clearys while they are at it so. Clock is a Dublin icon.


  • #639
    redman85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭redman85


    https://blog.websummit.net/whats-for-lunch-the-best-of-irish-artisan-produce-at-food-summit/

    They have to be taking the piss... €20 for a token that gets you a main course and a drink at the food summit!!


  • #640
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    redman85 wrote: »
    They have to be taking the piss... €20 for a token that gets you a main course and a drink at the food summit!!

    I wish they'd stop putting 'summit' after everything....

    Accelerator Summit, Angel Summit, Careers Summit, City Summit, Code Summit, Content Summit, Data Summit, Design Summit, Enterprise Summit, Fashion Summit, Food Summit, HealthTech Summit, Investor Summit, Machine Summit, Marketing Summit, Money Summit, Music Summit, Night Summit, Society Summit, Sport Summit, Startup Summit, Surf Summit


  • #641
    Sofiztikated
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    smash wrote: »
    I wish they'd stop putting 'summit' after everything....

    Accelerator Summit, Angel Summit, Careers Summit, City Summit, Code Summit, Content Summit, Data Summit, Design Summit, Enterprise Summit, Fashion Summit, Food Summit, HealthTech Summit, Investor Summit, Machine Summit, Marketing Summit, Money Summit, Music Summit, Night Summit, Society Summit, Sport Summit, Startup Summit, Surf Summit

    http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/540/681/b7d.jpg


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  • #642
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    redman85 wrote: »
    https://blog.websummit.net/whats-for-lunch-the-best-of-irish-artisan-produce-at-food-summit/

    They have to be taking the piss... €20 for a token that gets you a main course and a drink at the food summit!!

    That doesn't seem expensive, pretty standard.


  • #643
    gandalf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    Tarzana2 wrote: »
    That doesn't seem expensive, pretty standard.

    I was at last years Web Summit, thankfully the company realised that for us it is a big waste of time and didn't compel me to go this year.

    If that €20 is paying for what was supplied last year as part of the general ticket then it is taking the piss and is gouging of the highest order.


  • #644
    keithclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,208 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    Always looked like a pile of wánk to me, more like a meeting for everyone to sniff each others farts.

    I went the AWS Summit in Amsterdam and that was free and very useful, even the beer and food was free.

    Some great presentations and training sessions.

    Dublin is just expensive to go to and also Web Summit itself was expensive, the agenda wasn't every very interesting either.


  • #645
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    gandalf wrote: »
    If that €20 is paying for what was supplied last year as part of the general ticket then it is taking the piss and is gouging of the highest order.

    Oh yeah, if the standard of food was crap, then it's a rip off. I more meant if the food was decent to good.


  • #646
    Larbre34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,638 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Cosgrave is beginning to believe his own publicity now, and is starting to outgrow his boots.

    Having spent time there I can say Lisbon is a fine City, but he can expect to find there many of the issues he so easily denigrates Dublin for, plus quite a few more. On the other hand he won't so readily find there the positives that Dublin has to offer. Traffic and hotel gouging is part and parcel of big city conference reality, all he has to do is look at the rugby in England or the cities in France hosting the football next year. And crime and security is a bigger problem in Lisbon than it is in Dublin, and thats saying something these days...

    Once he is done with his over the top criticism of his home town, maybe next year he will live to regret the positives of being located here that he forgot. Don't hurry back now Paddy.


  • #647
    gandalf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    Tarzana2 wrote: »
    Oh yeah, if the standard of food was crap, then it's a rip off. I more meant if the food was decent to good.

    On one of the days last year you got a small portion of a chicken a la king type concoction, a bread roll, some what could be described as samples of cheeses and a bottle of soft drink.

    If they are charging for the same this year then it is crazy. I'll wait to hear back from people I know who have gone but I wouldn't be holding my breathe expecting them to get a slap up meal for their €20 :D


  • #648
    gandalf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    Oh and there were packs of crisps as well. I have a feeling they may have been promotional and supplied by the brand themselves.


  • #649
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    I thought Portugal had taken this pile of **** off our hands.


  • #650
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    gramar wrote: »
    I thought Portugal had taken this pile of **** off our hands.
    Only after this Thursday.


  • #651
    redman85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭redman85


    Tarzana2 wrote: »
    That doesn't seem expensive, pretty standard.

    https://twitter.com/CaitrionaDwyer/status/661511773221208064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

    pretty standard alright :rolleyes:


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  • #652
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,204 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    The sheer, concentrated and all-pervading arseholery of these setups and all who sail in them makes me want to kick things. :pac:


  • #653
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    smash wrote: »
    Only after this Thursday.

    Kind of unlucky to miss out on not hosting it by only 3 days...


  • #654
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    redman85 wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/CaitrionaDwyer/status/661511773221208064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

    pretty standard alright :rolleyes:
    Desert costs extra...

    https://twitter.com/CaitrionaDwyer/status/661513827926806528


  • #655
    Sofiztikated
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    To be honest, an valid criticisms she had are well and truly nullified by the use of #foodgate


  • #656
    gandalf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    redman85 wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/CaitrionaDwyer/status/661511773221208064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

    pretty standard alright :rolleyes:

    Jaysus that's worse than last year !!! At least we had hot food!

    Can't wait for Paddy's blog blaming the Gubberment :P


  • #657
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Jesus Christ.... Paddy has accused the Government of lying about the Web Summit in order to cover up the issues with homelessness etc in the country. And that any money the government have given to Web Summit was 'hush money'.

    https://twitter.com/morningireland/status/661467815879286784


  • #658
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    redman85 wrote: »
    pretty standard alright :rolleyes:

    I've already clarified what I meant by standard up-thread. I didn't know if the €20 entailed a proper meal and an alcoholic beverage.


  • #659
    arayess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,707 ✭✭✭arayess


    Larbre34 wrote: »
    Cosgrave is beginning to believe his own publicity now, and is starting to outgrow his boots.

    .

    unfortunately I foresee the narrative that he will claim that he is forced to flee Ireland because it's still a banana republic and in future years he'll take the mantle off bob geldof as the number 1 "rent a quote" exiled bitter crank


    actually I'll take that if he just fcuks off


  • #660
    ImDave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭ImDave


    I won't be mourning the loss of eijets like this. Seriously, it's 13* outside and you're in Dublin, not San Fran.

    http://s18.postimg.org/r65keo3nd/image.png


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  • #661
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    ImDave wrote: »
    I won't be mourning the loss of eijets like this. Seriously, it's 13* outside and you're in Dublin, not San Fran.

    http://s18.postimg.org/r65keo3nd/image.png

    ..they're like...gurus man....


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