The Small Business Column: The Web Summit

Kehlan Kirwan looks at the Web Summit, at Ireland’s self-deprecation, and why we are losing much more than just an event on the calendar.

No country does armchair belligerence quite like Ireland. As soon as the announcement was confirmed that Lisbon would be the next destination for the Web Summit the opportunity couldn’t be missed.

Now it was too crowded, too expensive and now it was Lisbon’s problem. A running argument, all week, on the public laundry outing that had become the spat between the Government and the summit organisers.