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Web Summit quits Dublin

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  • #1082
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,007 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    hardCopy wrote: »
    He'd want to have his head hanging off to explain that. Talk about a hospital pass to Hickey.

    In the middle of a PR storm RTE come out to broadcast the 9 O'Clock news live from your event, giving you a chance to have the last word and you send your buddy in at the last minute. Absolute idiocy.

    Its obivous that the only thing paddy cares for more than profits is his own personal public image which is why hickey got made walk the plank


  • #1083
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    I'm still seeing posts on Facebook about how great the Web Summit is and how the government fcuked up and should do everything they can to bring it back. Some people still don't understand that it's not the governments fault that Web Summit are leaving Ireland.


  • #1084
    Rattlehead_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,891 ✭✭✭Rattlehead_ie


    smash wrote: »
    I'm still seeing posts on Facebook about how great the Web Summit is and how the government fcuked up and should do everything they can to bring it back. Some people still don't understand that it's not the governments fault that Web Summit are leaving Ireland.
    ....but out of interest who do people really believe is at fault for this?!


  • #1085
    kidneyfan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,279 ✭✭✭kidneyfan


    Rattlehead_ie wrote: »
    ....but out of interest who do people really believe is at fault for this?!
    In a way we are all to blame.


  • #1086
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Rattlehead_ie wrote: »
    ....but out of interest who do people really believe is at fault for this?!

    There are people who firmly believe that the government did nothing to help the Web Summit, and who think that even traffic management solutions weren't being provided which is completely false. They have an image of the Web Summit as being the biggest tech event on the planet where industry visionaries congregate to make the world a better place and promote innovation and growth in Ireland. That the event is worth a fortune to the economy and is invaluable to the industry, and that the Irish government pushed them away by not offering any support.

    Most of the speakers are not 'prestigious' and a hell of a lot of them aren't even part of the tech world so it's not a case of this event being full of industry giants. I don't know how many sports people I've heard of speaking at this stage...

    Who's at fault here? Paddy is! He did not plan, organise or execute the event correctly. Not one of his so called issues were to do with the government and every issue he had was within his control but he would not pay to fix them. The conference is leaving because they got a better offer and if that was just said at the start then nobody would actually care.


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  • #1087
    Rattlehead_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,891 ✭✭✭Rattlehead_ie


    smash wrote: »
    Who's at fault here? Paddy is! He did not plan, organise or execute the event correctly. Not one of his so called issues were to do with the government and every issue he had was within his control but he would not pay to fix them. The conference is leaving because they got a better offer and if that was just said at the start then nobody would actually care.

    Fully agreed. I am just curious to see if someone in Portugal plans this for him or will it again be just another failure over there. Number of exhibitors are certainly down.


  • #1088
    zoobizoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,774 ✭✭✭zoobizoo


    Paddy will be on The Late Late Show this Friday.


  • #1089
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Rattlehead_ie wrote: »
    Fully agreed. I am just curious to see if someone in Portugal plans this for him or will it again be just another failure over there. Number of exhibitors are certainly down.

    He's indirectly saying there'll be:

    Better wifi, addition and free public transport, cheaper hotels, police escorts for VIPs, road closures for direct traffic flow to his event.

    Because that's what he wanted here.... but he didn't ask the right people and at the end of the day he wouldn't pay for it anyway.


  • #1090
    Eoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,273 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    kidneyfan wrote: »
    In a way we are all to blame.

    But in another, more accurate way - we're not. The organisers are.


  • #1091
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    zoobizoo wrote: »
    Paddy will be on The Late Late Show this Friday.
    I wonder if the researchers have read this thread.


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  • #1092
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    smash wrote: »
    The conference is leaving because they got a better offer and if that was just said at the start then nobody would actually care.
    This is the key point.
    Web Summit made a commercial decision to leave Ireland. Paddy saw the chance of a larger wad of sweaty money if he went elsewhere. Fair enough. Problem is that this narrative didn't sit well with Paddy and so he launched a deflect and blame campaign against the government.

    "Oooh we wanted to stay man but ye know the government didn't control hotel prices and..errrr...the traffic was brutal and ye know the WiFi was dodgy even when we organised it ourselves but yeah"

    Pathetic stuff and unsurprisingly it has backfired.


  • #1093
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,007 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    smash wrote: »
    I wonder if the researchers have read this thread.

    God I hope they find this https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CS-6rfLWsAEvzrd.jpg:large


  • #1094
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    kidneyfan wrote: »
    In a way we are all to blame.

    No we're not. Not in any way. Care to expand?


  • #1095
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    We should get Paddy strapped into a chair and let Vinny B at him for an hour.


  • #1096
    kidneyfan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,279 ✭✭✭kidneyfan


    Zeke Victorious Sparrow wrote: »
    No we're not. Not in any way. Care to expand?
    Well what have you done for the web summit? I've done nothing at all.


  • #1097
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    kidneyfan wrote: »
    Well what have you done for the web summit? I've done nothing at all.
    The guilt is eating me up


  • #1098
    Red Kev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    zoobizoo wrote: »
    Paddy will be on The Late Late Show this Friday.

    The question is will Tubridy use it as a stick to beat the government with and go easy on him or will he take Cosgrave apart.

    I'm in favour of a 'blood substitution' for the LLS. For the Cosgrave interview, get Tubridy off and put Sharon ni Bheautifulann or Sean O'Rourke on, to totally screw him over.

    Bring a burger as evidence.


  • #1099
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,863 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Red Kev wrote: »
    Bring a burger as evidence.
    Should certainly have some of the food vendors or their representative on, as well as reps from any other aspect of it to confirm/contest claims made.


  • #1100
    Unshelved
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 865 ✭✭✭Unshelved


    Lisbon's ad for the Websummit - looks like they're pulling out all the stops!

    https://www.facebook.com/Visitportugal/videos/10153778129346661/


  • #1101
    LuckyLloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,633 ✭✭✭✭LuckyLloyd


    Yeah I want to see him ****ed out of it now. I was entirely sympathetic to the Web Summit's stated position when it was initially announced that they were leaving the country, and happy to blame the Government. Now I do think that this government deserves a huge amount of criticism for its long term approach (or lack thereof) to infrastructure, but with regards to the specifics of this event Cosgrove has been shown up as a whiny opportunist. The more I read about the event the more it becomes clear that it is base scumbag gouging and the IDA will continue to do the real work at attracting investment into this country irrespective of what governments or summits are in. Good riddance, but let's give him a proper kicking before he ****s off.


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  • #1102
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 43,155 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    smash wrote: »
    I'm still seeing posts on Facebook about how great the Web Summit is and how the government fcuked up and should do everything they can to bring it back. Some people still don't understand that it's not the governments fault that Web Summit are leaving Ireland.
    With respect, a lot of facebook postings on topical or political issues are made by gob****es!


  • #1103
    Rattlehead_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,891 ✭✭✭Rattlehead_ie


    kbannon wrote: »
    With respect, a lot of facebook postings on topical or political issues are made by gob****es!

    and boards.ie is the height of high brow sophisticated repartee :p especially After Hours ;)


  • #1104
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,424 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    kidneyfan wrote: »
    In a way we are all to blame.

    We all partied.


  • #1105
    kidneyfan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,279 ✭✭✭kidneyfan


    Birneybau wrote: »
    We all partied.
    But not at the websummit unfortunately.


  • #1106
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Unshelved wrote: »
    Lisbon's ad for the Websummit - looks like they're pulling out all the stops!

    https://www.facebook.com/Visitportugal/videos/10153778129346661/
    Choices 2.0.... I think I just puked up a bit.


  • #1107
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 43,155 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    kidneyfan wrote: »
    But not at the websummit unfortunately.
    There was loads of partying done at the WS. The startups paid for it!


  • #1108
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    Lol at the FB bigging it up, One of the biggest influential blahh blah. Sorry what was it 30k people ? Remind me again how many goto blizzcon for example delusional to say the least.


  • #1109
    Synode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Synode


    darkpagandeath wrote: »
    Lol at the FB bigging it up, One of the biggest influential blahh blah. Sorry what was it 30k people ? Remind me again how many goto blizzcon for example delusional to say the least.

    As much as I agree, what has a convention not in Ireland got to do with it


  • #1110
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Synode wrote: »
    As much as I agree, what has a convention not in Ireland got to do with it
    The video states that the Web Summit is "one of the largest and most important technology and entrepreneurship events in the world" so conferences outside of Ireland do have something to do with it.


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  • #1111
    Synode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Synode


    smash wrote: »
    The video states that the Web Summit is "one of the largest and most important technology and entrepreneurship events in the world" so conferences outside of Ireland do have something to do with it.

    Fair enough, comparable conferences do. But BlizzCon and Web Summit are not comparable in my opinion. Two different animals altogether


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