Paddy Cosgrave
This morning.
Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin 2
Paddy Cosgrave, of the Web Summit, held a press conference to outline his company’s plans to return to the RDS next year (with a conference on money)…and tackle white tee collar CORRUPTION in Ireland.
Mr Cosgrave said his decision to take a stand on corruption was based in part on having witnessed it “on a massive scale” for himself. He also said that becoming a parent made him want to ensure his child grew up in a meritocracy.
“I feel I’m freerer to say things and I am also in a position where I can pick up the phone to many of the CEOs of the biggest tech companies in the world – who have very large operations in Ireland – and chat openly with them about the fact that Ireland remains alone in terms of being in breach of anti-corruption legislation,” he said
Part of the plans unveiled by Web Summit in its battle against corruption involve funding for the training of investigative journalists…
Web Summit founder calls for action against corruption in Ireland (Irish Times)
Pic via Will Goodbody
didn’t recognise him there for a bit without the hairy geansaí
so he’s going to clean up all the corruption
welcome back Paddy
might need to start on his own doorstep, his rates for start-ups at his trade show were outrageous bordering on corruption in my book. #ripoffmerchant
The new David McWilliams.
Mr Cosgrave said his decision to take a stand on corruption was based in part on having witnessed it “on a massive scale” for himself
Indeed you have, Paddy. At your own glass summit.
http://tech.eu/features/6244/web-summit-scam-well-ask/
Great caption, Bodger
Becoming a parent made me want to make more money.
The man who coined the word meritocracy (who’s Toby Young’s father, I can’t remember his name) wrote about it as a satire and gave it negative connotations.
Hmm. He’s Michael Young, and wrote about it here:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment
Meritocracy, but one with caveats that restrict who has merit:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/is-a-trinity-degree-worth-more-tech-entrepreneur-hits-a-nerve-1.1788438
“The Dublin Web Summit founder was today explaining his company’s decision only to recruit graduates who got a 2.1 degree from TCD or a first-class honours degree from the other six universities here.”
He just gets more and more up his own bottom area.
He’s such a male genital. I’ve seen him walking around town basically shouting, ‘I’m a parent!’
I keep thinking of Family Guy; “Until you have a child, you do not understand, ok…?”
Oh god, they called the kid something atrocious didn’t they? I’m not sure I want to look it up
“Cloud”. Named after cloud computing. Yup…
I’m going to assume that you’re joking, for the sake of my own sanity.
Time to slip on the straight-jacket, Milly My Love.
Feck it anyway. See you all later in the madhouse.
I’m not joking, unfortunately.
That’s the type of mindset we’re dealing with here, a grown adult who thinks its OK to name their child after cloud computing.
As if daddy isn’t going to regularly remind the child what he does for a living FFS!
He did not, did he?
Jaysus…
I still regret calling my child Mainframe.. when will we ever learn?
It’s better than “Dumb Terminal”
So is Cloud a boys name or a girls name
‘sounds Native American t’me
We were deliberating over whether to call our youngest Laptop or Joystick but eventually settled on Amazon Fire TV. Her olderst brother is called Dongle.
Wiffy got no look in
‘just wondering now like
is there an app for feeding n’ stuff
or for the Labour ward
Paddy, tell Bezos we need money to build housing for Irish people and school for Irish children. He seems very worked up about his liquidity, a lot of which came from underpaid Irish taxes.. Or Tim Apple Cook. He could spare a few billions for county Cork, couldn’t he?
Yeah good point. You can’t talk about white collar dodginess without mentioning Apple. Somehow I can’t see him being critical of Apple.
Amen, sir
What a horrible gobdaw that fellow is. He’s worried about ‘corruption’? Yeah, chinny chinny reckon.
Never trust anyone who begins every sentence with “So…”
What kind of headline is this. Is Paddy a hypocrite here? Didn’t he complain that he wasn’t getting the concessions he was asking for and when it didn’t go his way, he turned blackmail and manipulation? or am I mis-informed? Wasn’t the move to Lisbon all about the money?
Concessions or Commissions, Jose?
what he was requesting for his private company, for free, from the office of the taoiseach, would have amounted to corruption.
so I’m skeptical to hear him say anything like this but am interested to see what will come out of it.
Did he actually mention what type of corruption he saw, by whom and if he’d be bringing it to the public attention.
I mean if he doesn’t have to worry about offending people why doesn’t he just let rip.
Meritocracy for the man who’ll only accept trinners grads – sure
Paddy Cosgrove is looking more like Eamonn Ryan with each passing year.
who is Eamonn Ryan?
Lol the hating and begrudging on a successful Paddy is something gruesome to behold
Ah yes, the ‘begrudging’ comment was bound to come. You’re not allowed to be critical of Paddy and if you are you’re a begrudger? Is that how it is?
You can still be critical of him without resorting to begrudgery. That’s if you’re able to think that much
Are you the judge of what the difference between criticism is and begrudgery? Whatever meets with your approval will be categorised as one an not the other? Who made you King?
You’re welcome peasant
Spoofer.
http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/spoofer-turned-prophet-the-enigma-of-paddy-cosgrave-34178235.html
Meh,
If he has evidence or experience of corruption surely he is obliged to go to the cops? No?
Happy to hear he’s bringing a smaller conference to Dublin. Hope it also grows in size like the WebSummit.
he mustn’t have thought to go to the guards..
He tried emailing them but his wifi was down
You know despite Bono , some people like their music. I dont care about who this guy thinks he is or if he is likeable or not, a fella like that might be confident enough to bumble into something huge. And then we will have to do our part by demanding change.
The establishment will try to destroy him if he becomes dangerous, lets not help them…
Just look at what happened with this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Public_Inquiry
Ill reserve judgement until I see what he produces
Ireland’s answer to Julian Assange. #mikileaks
A) MoneyConf- who cares?
B) he calls his kid “Cloud” but his Summit “Web”. Last time anyone said “Web”?
Boo boo man
Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index 2016
https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_perceptions_index_2016
Ireland 19
Portugal 29
Shut up Cosgrave.
Busted!
This fella is gas. I work in IT and that web summit conference was more of a marketing and online advertising circlejerk than anything. The price of the tickets – now that’s corruption!
That event didn’t register with anyone even slightly involved in the technical side of the web or any kind of SaaS endeavour.
He’s great at the old marketing but he can piss right off with his let’s fix corruption message by doing another winky wanky fintech conference. He fupped off when it suited him, he should stay fupped off.
The cheek of him ringing big FDI employers and telling them bad stuff about Ireland! Seriously not cool. What does he want? For them to pull out with thousands of job losses so he can make a point?