Taoiseach Leo Varadkar could be hauled before a powerful Dáil committee to answer questions over the Strategic Communications Unit (SCU) controversy as soon as next week under plans to be finalised this morning.

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Former French president François Hollande and former US vice president Al Gore will speak at this year’s Web Summit, Europe’s largest tech event.

The head of Web Summit is not ruling out the possibility of hosting an event in Dublin in the future.

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A co-founder of the Web Summit and one of Forbes magazine’s rising young stars has been named Cork Person of the Month for March.

There was a confident and casual air among delegates at Labour’s party conference over the weekend.

The cash pile at the group of companies behind the Web Summit more than doubled to €2.5m in 2014.

Though possibly churlish, a point was reached yesterday at the gathering of the business diaspora known as the ‘Global Irish Economic Forum’ that you wished for an appearance of fractious Paddy Cosgrave — the man who is taking his Web Summit out of Ireland and on to Portugal.

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.

It has been a long, painful goodbye but the Web Summit has finally packed its bags and flown the nest, a whole lot bigger and bolder than when it started.

The second day of the Web Summit may not have had an announcement to rival that of the first when Irish entrepreneur Oisín Hanrahan’s start-up, Handy landed a $50m investment but it had plenty to keep tech heads and investors busy nonetheless.

The Web Summit is entering its second day and despite the thousands of delegates and dozens of prestigious speakers, the controversies just won’t go away.

The co-founder of the Web Summit yesterday said the Government was continuing to use the tech event as a distraction from the real issues affecting people on a daily basis.

The Government has been urged to do all it can to win back the Web Summit from Lisbon after the opposition claimed it has so far failed to properly tackle the PR crisis.

THE accusations levelled against Government by Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave are so serious that they cannot go unanswered.

Dublin City Council has defended its role in attempting to keep the Web Summit in the capital, saying it continues to offer every possible support to organisers for this year’s event.

While the debate rages over whether the Government dropped the ball in letting the Web Summit leave, or if the event’s founders were over-demanding in their requests, what is not in doubt is the embarrassment which elements of the correspondences released this week will cause the cabinet, writes Joe Leogue

THERE are always two sides to every story but correspondence released yesterday by Web Summit co-founder Paddy Cosgrave suggests that one side of the story around the decision to take the event out of Ireland may not be particularly impressive or inspiring. 

The Government, Dublin City Council, the RDS, and the body representing the hotel industry have all responsed to claims outlined in correspondences between the Web Summit founder and the Taoiseach’s office.

Last week it appeared that large parts of the Irish media had a collective meltdown when a conference organising company decided to up sticks and leave Dublin for Lisbon.

Kehlan Kirwan looks at the loss of the Web Summit to Lisbon and while it may be a great move for the event, it exposes a harsh reality for the Irish tech and start-up scene

After water and wifi issues at the last two events it’s a wave goodbye that’s set to dominate this year’s Web Summit after its founder signalled his intent to move the event to Lisbon from 2016.

The decision to relocate the Web Summit to Lisbon from next year onwards will cost the Irish economy tens of millions of euro and should act as a wake-up call to the need for improved infrastructure here, business bodies have warned.

The Government couldn’t prevent the Web Summit choosing an alternative host city from next year despite funnelling over €700,000 of taxpayers’ money into the event over the past three years.

THE announcement that the Web Summit is no longer to be based in Dublin, instead moving to Lisbon next year, is very disappointing though hardly surprising.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Dublin Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave was yesterday unable to guarantee that the wi-fi issues that dogged last year’s event will not be replicated this November, or indeed that the summit would be held in Dublin from next year onwards.

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The RDS is open to relinquishing control over the provision of wifi at next year’s Web Summit but cannot guarantee that the event will remain in Ireland, according to the venue’s chief executive, Michael Duffy.

The matriarch of Irish food, Myrtle Allen, was last night inducted into the inaugural Good Food Ireland Hall of Fame along with Redmond O’Donoghue and Web Summit Founder Paddy Cosgrave at an event in Herbert Park.

The head of the Web Summit has threatened to pull the event out of Ireland unless the wi-fi problems which have dogged the event are resolved.

AIB has shown Web Summit attendees how one small action can impact the bigger picture.