Web Summit used to ‘distract from real issues’

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.

Paddy Cosgrave criticised the Government for the way in which a controversy surrounding the summit’s planned relocation to Lisbon developed, and said it proved to be a convenient distraction from other serious issues in the country such as homelessness.

“Ultimately, the Web Summit is not all that important at the end of the day to ordinary people’s lives.