Web Summit: Officialdom challenged

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. 

It suggests that the long-dreaded dead hand of smug bureaucracy is as influential as ever.

Mr Cosgrave’s recorded that: “We’ve never succeeded in getting a single meeting with Dublin’s city manager… yet we’ve been invited to sit down with prime ministers across Europe… we’ve been invited to more meetings in Number 10 Downing St than to meetings in Leinster House.”