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Updated 12.36
THE DUBLIN WEB Summit will be shifted to the Portuguese capital of Lisbon next year.
Co-founder and CEO Paddy Cosgrave said this morning that after “careful consideration” the company had decided to move the event.
The announcement comes after more than a month of speculation that organisers could shift the conference to one of several alternative locations, including Amsterdam or London.
The company would not reveal what incentives were offered as part of its final decision to move to Lisbon after whisperings that it was pushing for a better deal from state agencies to stay in Ireland, however Portuguese media reported government “investment” in the event totalled €1.3 million per year.
“We chose Lisbon because of the strong infrastructure in the city, the amazing venue and the thriving startup community,” Cosgrave said in his statement.
We want (the Web Summit) to continue to grow and for our attendees to get the best experience possible. We look forward to working with the Lisbon community – they have been incredibly welcoming.”
Five years on
The tech conference, which organisers expect to bring in 30,000 attendees this November, was launched five years ago in the Irish capital with a few hundred industry figures.
By last year it had grown to over 22,000 attendees at Dublin’s RDS Arena. Fáilte Ireland has put the value of the 2014 Web Summit to the Irish economy at €100 million.
However the event was plagued with WiFi problems and concerns were also raised about price gouging by hotels and guesthouses in the capital during the event.
Cosgrave said the Web Summit organisers would “always be grateful for the support and encouragement” they received from Dublin and the Irish authorities.
When asked what financial incentives had been provided to move the event to Lisbon, a spokesman for the Web Summit told TheJournal.ie the company would “not comment on confidential commercial agreements”.
Figures from the IDA showed the state development body spent €320,000 on both the Web Summit and F.Ounders events in Dublin between 2012 and 2014.
A spokesman said the spend was in line with that from other organisations wanting to “secure access and high-profile branding” at the events. The sums included tickets, exhibition space and other perks.
Enterprise Ireland spent about €456,000 on participation fees for the event between 2011 and 2014, and another €69,000 in costs on stands. The agency recorded €36,750 in income from last year’s event.
A spokesman said Enterprise Ireland was “delighted” to be partners with the Web Summit since its foundation and it was disappointed to hear of the move.
The Web Summit has also received “significant financial and non-financial support” from other state publicly-funded bodies including Fáilte Ireland and Dublin City Council, among others, according to a spokesman for the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.
State of the art
In a blog post further explaining the decision, Cosgrave said the new “state-of-the-art venue” in Lisbon, the MEO Arena, would have the capacity for more than 80,000 attendees next year.
A spokesman for the RDS said the Web Summit was a “great event for Dublin” and it was “regrettable” the decision had been taken to move it next year. The event’s organisers have agreed a deal to bring in a third-party WiFi provider for this year’s summit.
Cosgrave said the company remained Irish, employing 130 people in its Dublin headquarters. It has launched a number of spin-off conferences, including Collision in the US and RISE in Hong Kong.
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I can’t blame them. It must have been mortifying to have the WiFi keeping going down last time out. Our loss!
Who was to blame in the end?
This decision has nothing to do with infrastructure or WiFi.
It’s all about the money, money, money.
Eircom
Fair play to government, they obviously wanted taxpayers money to fund the private event. Cost/benefit probably didn’t stack up. Bloody capitalists, sling yer hook. Companies want low tax regimes to set up business. This lot are event organisers, they will still funnel any profits made in other countries through here anyway.
I would have moved it too. Ireland has an illusion of innovation because we keep attracting established foreign companies here. But the reality is we do fukc all to support entrepreneurs and start-ups. If Lisbon has a better start-up community, they have more innovation and they deserve the summit.
Are you trolling?
How do you know they wanted taxpayers money?
For the last 4 years the Wifi has been awful, this is a TECHNOLOGY conference, most of the attendees are running there companies and networking while there. Despite repeated threats that if it did not improve they would leave. It didnt and they have.
This was one of the jewels in Ireland’s technology crown and its been thrown away
Exactly Chris ! They did say they would go if the wifi did not improve and now they have . Simple as that.
Yeah, there couldn’t possibly be multiple factors involved in the decision. That’s just crazy talk.
Seems like it’s was the usual Hotels being greedy too like they are when Gigs are on. The idea of get them hard and quick once over welcome them at fair price and work in return Business again and again.
There are wi-fi problems at practically every technology event. It happens when there are thousands of attendees trying to connect their phones and laptops at the same time. There were issues reported at IFA and CES.
I’ve no doubt at all that there’ll be wi-fi issues in the venue in Lisbon too.
Money for who? For any conference you need delegates, and cost of hotels is a major factor is a company sending people.
I asked a few hotels in Kilkenny for 15 rooms for mid December for a Christmas party and the price was ridiculous.
Here we go again.
*Eir
The headline has now changed to infer money was the de using factor. Nice impartial journalism there for you. The truth is they have probably been courted before by other venues in other countries. I’d be surprised if they weren’t . They hadn’t gone before and thst says they were trying to make it happen in Ireland . Too many feck ups and not much support from your country just getting ripped off was probably the straw that broke the camels back perhaps. All I know is it was in Dublin and the organisers gave fair warning they would go unless there were improvements. They wasn’t and they got a better offer and left. It’s still our loss.
i couldnt agree more vincent
over heads must be much lower, sure their ticket price alone is a months wage where they’re off to unless of course theyre planning on dropping the ticket price in a country with a much poorer economy. will they remain same? if so i can’t expect thousands of portuguese forking out a months wage on that
Last night I was looking at hotels in Dublin for a weekend at the beginning of October and was truly shocked that the prices were considerably higher than I paid in London in August.
Do people not understand how wifi works?
Wifi is a local connection. It is provided LOCALLY. If there are issues, it is within your power to correct it, not your ISP.
IF as, some people have suggested, it was because the venue insisted on using their own equipment, not allowing a BYO approach, then simple solution “We bring our own or we walk”.
RDS let them down disgracefully last year. RDS refused to let them install their own wifi and made them hire the RDS stuff for €400,000, that didn’t work on the day. A web summit without web access is embarrassing- Im sure they will have it working this year in Dublin. I’m sorry to see them go, it was a great event.
I think your overlooking the negative effect price gouging has had. know it really peed off attendees. Lisbon is a far cheaper place to visit
Can’t blame him after last year. A web summit where the WiFi was ridiculous. Would not be surprised if some of last years attendees didn’t want to attend this year if it was in Dublin. Embarrassing.
He is a bit of a prat though
I didn’t say that.
He is a bloody gentleman and anyone who says otherwise is a uneducated ignorant fool. From a small idea to promote technology usage bringing in the biggest tech names to where it is now…incredible.
Shame visitors could get no wifi, overpriced accommodation and poor service in some places.
Paul he is successful, that does not mean that people are not entitled to think he is a prat any less than you are entitled to think he is a gentleman, how can you vouch for their personal experience of him.
Either way the Web Summit will be a loss for the city, although you can add overpriced tickets to your overpriced accommodation, it will be interesting to see how the move affects ticket prices.
Shame the average working person couldn’t afford to go to these events also. Over 600 euro for cheapest tickets.
I didn’t say that either.
Paddy Cosgrave, the guy who will only recruit graduates from Trinity…
So he hates DCU and NUI, or are you just making this up? :)
If that’s true, he just sounds like a pretentious snob, unless of course Trinity IT courses are markedly superior to any other institutes.
The HEA distanced away a bit from him after he said it.
Completely untrue, but you just keep making up random facts there. I know for a fact there are DCU alumni employed by him.
I thought it was Trinity who in the past gave out fake Masters degrees to its alumni graduates without having done the additional years of work required, or was that a myth?
I can second the trinity BS, I know personally two DCU and UCD IT alumni working for WebSummit
Chris I took a look at the link the the times article provided above, seems he was recruiting those from Tinity with a 2.1 or above, and those from other Unis who had a 1.1
Cosgrave’s reasoning apparently was that grade inflation was rampant in non-Trinity colleges and that the other degrees were 3 year as opposed to 4 year courses.
I’m not sure about the truth of the claims of grade inflation, but I’m pretty sure many IT degrees in the other colleges are 4 year ones…
Especially strange since I found the standard of computer science facilities and lecturers to be appalling in Trinity compared to UL. Baseless elitism seems to be a feature of students there, would not have studied there if I had the choice again.
Grade inflation is the elephant in the room, too many ostriches with their heads in the sand here as well, (intentionally mixing metaphors btw)
Yeah if true that’s ridiculous, It shouldn’t matter what college you come out of not all just about that but can you do the job but not just your skills but can you integrate in teams as well, I don’t believe you learn those skills you either have a good personality or not
Also likes to take credit for other people’s work too, nice lad.
http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/paddy-cosgrave-issues-app-ology-1.2347565
It’s all about money. Great pity.
And the fact that lat years was an absolute shambles, couldn’t get the basics right – wifi ffs.
Well to be fair he gave plenty of notice… WiFi access last year was less than 40%.
I remember volunteering for them a few years back. Apparently the RDS wouldn’t allow Paddy upgrade the site wifi, and this is a direct result of that. The blame for this lays squarely at the feet of the Royal Dublin Society.
It’s all about money, it would be interesting to see if any taxpayers money was used to promote & develop this company in the past. Hope it’s not another case of ” we got your grants & assistance- thanks now we are out of here” . Maybe some bright spark can build on the success of this & organise an alternative tech show here next year.
Lack of hotels in Dublin and the high cost of the ones available is another big factor
I was at it last year. Wi-Fi was a shambles. Someone handed me a tablet to fill out a survey, and the thing wouldn’t load, which was very embarrassing for them. While the main issue with the wi-fi would be for the exhibitors, it obviously affected the attendees too. I had a good 4G connection throughout, which was fine for me as my company are paying for it. But it wouldn’t be a viable option for visitors from abroad who would be roaming, and most tech employees need to be online even when they’re at a conference.
Also, the only way my company could afford to send me was because I didn’t have to stay in a hotel and opted to stay with a relative in Dublin instead. Hotel availability and prices were shocking. I bought my ticket months in advance, and by that time there was nothing reasonable left at all.
The market for this European and International tech companies, not just Irish ones, so there’s no loyalty from the majority of the attendees to Ireland. As sad as I am to see it leave Dublin, it makes perfect commercial sense to move it to another location which can handle the size it has become.
Someone tell the RDS that there are other locations on the planet besides them.
Everything good that comes out of this country eventually leaves. The Summit was something special and becoming a world attraction.
It’s like everything, nothing is organised properly and people here are only in it for themselves. It’s sickening.
“Lack of hotels in Dublin and the high cost of the ones available is another big factor”
Lack of everything.
Crumbling broadband, non-existent public transport and as you mentioned lack of quality hotels make us very unattractive for these sorts of events compared to genuine, world class cities.
404 Dublin Web Summit not found.
Deserving comment of the week.
Well done Sir.
Hmmm or perhaps 302 moved temporarily
I was in the rds that weekend working at the knit and stitch. Wifi complete disgrace ,couldnt get connected at all pages so slow to load. I was lucky as used my phone but im local, imagine the bills for roaming! many visitors from all over the world at a fricking web summit in the middle of the capital and no broadband. Was an absolutely ridiculous situation, it was driving the quilting grannies mad enough yet alone people at an internet summit. That evening heading into town bus wait was crazy. There was a group of techie Americans guys getting on the bus, bus driver was so rude to them when they asked the fare, where he was going etc. They were also shocked bus didnt give change as they only had twenty euro and the reaction of the ignorant driver was just so condescending , I was like welcome to rip off Ireland guys! Rds should be ashamed
That’s Dublin for you
It’s not just Dublin. The same attitude can be found across the country
Vocal, not to the same extent.
Lisbon is likely to do a good job. As for our government, THIS is when your intervention is needed, stop the pothole politics and focus on the big picture!
Sky high cost of everything in Dublin is going to push more events like this away (food,hotels,transport etc)
Hotel costs soared for it last year, taxi fares rose this year etc
Rip off prices in hotels no doubt helped to kill the golden goose as well as the awful Wi-Fi.Lisbon is a fantastic place to hold this snd much much cheaper too. Ireland is too expensive and not good value for money sadly.
RDS is a kip and when u have B&Bs looking for e300 a night what do u expect. And Craggy Island type WiFi…
Bet the RDS are regretting the mess up with the WIFI now.
Still it’s bad news for Ireland.
It’s very bad for Ireland makes us look terrible
Good, maybe we need to be shown up, rather than buying the government lies. The “world class education system” is the next government myth that’s being revealed as a sham, as our unis tumble down the rankings and our graduates struggle to get the best jobs.
Considering how many people the quietly let go since last year it’s not a surprise they are moving, cosgrave has zero loyalty for anyone but himself, that being said the wifi situation is a joke and the rds should be ashamed also the gouging by hotels was obscene
Ian you were not one of them and if people do not have the ability needed, you don’t keep them on.
“now Europe’s biggest tech event”
Although it’s nothing like it was, CeBIt still had over 200K attendees last year,
Facts…
People are talking about wifi like it’s the reason. The reason here is they have gotten 600k in “grants” from Enterprise Ireland and more than likely they wanted more and didn’t get it.
If they got money from EI then it would more than likely have been an investment as opposed to a “grant”. If this is the case then moving abroad could be something EI is supportive of as it may mean the value of their investment will grow. If they are keeping their offices in Ireland and employing people here then more power to them. It’s up to the RDS and Dublin in general to try and win them (and other similar events) back to Ireland in the coming years.
That’s what happens when you entrust broadband connectivity of a major world event to Eircom…
It had to be Eircom didn’t it?..little squiggle of a company!
Good luck to Lisbon
Bad news for Ireland Inc. The Lisbon venue can also hold 80K people. That and last year’s Wi-Fi issues along with lack of hotel beds seems to be the main reasons.
Could they have not just tried pressing the reset button on the back of the doohickey yoke?
That’s terrible news. This is a giant event that really put Dublin on the IT map.
I’m not sure if Mr. Cosgrove understands the significance of “Dublin” in the name of the event.
There are multitudes of cities that have better wifi access than Dublin, but they won’t be Dublin.
Now, it’s a web event that competes with web events in other cities… so what’s so special about this one?
I do hope the Hub can get their sh!t together on this one.
Lisbon is a pretty special city too.
I think it will certainly have an impact to the type of attendees or speakers, with less american’s attending. There are very few direct US flights to Lisbon, with no direct flights from the west coast.
That’s exactly what I was thinking.
Longer flights and a perception of language difficulty and no craic.
No craic in Lisbon? have you ever been there?
Certainly not. :) I’m involved in Entrepreneurship in Dublin but I’m really happy to see this Irish founded awesome event moving the next 3 years to Lisbon (where I am from). Lisbon is a really modern and tech city with capacity to hold this event and at significant lower prices (food, accommodation, transport) and really friendly people. Startup scene is booming there and we have one of the most brilliant engineers out there. The night life there is crazy as well it starts 00h-01h00 and ends after hours. Awesome place to receive best people in the entrepreneurial and tech scene… oh and the weather is WAY more appealing than here….
Fabio,
How many Americans know that?
Well…. they will ;)
After 5 years in the same place, it gets boring. It should move around and I will be glad not too listen to have to hear about it for a while
all about the egos
We dont need the WebSummit when we have the Ploughing Championships
When I read about the wifi difficulties last year it reminded me of going to the pictures when I was a young lad and the projector in our cinema would constantly break down. We would all stamp our feet and shout “we want our money back”. On a more serious note, it goes to show how as a nation we have to struggle with poor or non existent broadband connections even in our largest city. As for the costs ….
Better standard of escorts in Lisbon
Dublin Global Techno Hub? Really?
And please read the entire post. I am sure you will raise an eyebrow when done.
When a business that supposedly generates “100 million a year for the Irish Economy” is moving abroad either someone has been telling porkies or someone in Government has been vast asleep, or both.
Lisbon has a better infrastructure then Dublin?
Ok that I can believe, or maybe not.
But wait a minute. This does not seem to bother Google, Paypal, Twitter and Facebook who all employ a few more people then the 130 people the company behind the web summit employs.
and lets not forget the other small boys called Intel.
We all know that the RDS is a pretty small place compared to some other venues across Europe, but Lisbon.?
So why this move to Lisbon and not Berlin, Munich, Amsterdam, Paris, Madrid, or, yes and I forgot the other small village called London.
London has no decent infrastructure for this type of event?
But the truth might have more to do with $$$ then with location.
I can understand the LA and New York are a little to far away.
Ok then Lisbon it is, after all it is the best alternative to Dublin.
Or is it?
RDS CAPACITY : 10.596 SQ M
LISBON CONGRESS CENTER: 10.000 SQ M
Population Lisbon 530.000
Population Dublin 527.000
And not enough hotels in Dublin.?
Dublin had more than 3.5 MILLION overseas visitors in 2014.
One in three euro spent in Ireland by overseas visitors were spent in Dublin. and I guess it’s a little more then the 100 million generated by the Websummit
So why Lisbon? I guess we’ll never know.
As a famous Irish person one quoted.
“MEN IS LEAST HIMSELF WHEN HE TALKS IN HIS OWN PERSON. GIVE HIM A MASK AND HE WILL TELL YOU THE TRUTH.” (Oscar Wilde)
I largely agree, but i would argue; the Google, Paypal, Twitter and Facebook etc are profit driven, the 12.5% tax rate which actually usually only amounts to 8% is their reason for staying…I’d replace Tech Hub with Tax haven.
I agree. But i am wondering. I have seen so many comment here about poor wifi.
Do the likes of Google, Facebook, Paypal, Microsoft and Intel suffer from poor wifi?
Some say a loss to Ireland. Really, ‘com on and smell the coffee.
Do you know any other exhibition where they charge entrance fees of €1000+
This was always hyped up by. “You can rub shoulders with some famous people”
And never about TECH!
Many fools feel good when they can say “I met so and so”
And then they had the audacity to get students to work for them for Free as “Volunteers”
And invite other students to get a stand at a discounted rate of just €1000.
Focussed on, and supporting IT?
These guys have never had one second of passion for anything to do with IT other then the $$.
I run a very small software business from Ireland, and 90 of my customers are in the USA
Not one of them has ever told me. “I don’t want to buy from you because you are based in Ireland”
My customer include several US Government Departments.
And not one of them has a problem with me being based in Ireland.
Did I get any support in Ireland achieving my goals? You MUST BE JOKING RIGHT?
And, bye the way, as all my business is global via the Internet my WIFI is JUST FINE!
I guess customers like my product because I am honest, transparent and without any bullshit.
And there are of course many more companies in Ireland with similar stories.
I might not make as much money as the guys who run Websummit, but I prefer to have a proper long term reputation, then just hyping things up for the sake of a few extra $$$.
At least I can be proud of having build a successful business with a strong global reputation.
And which will be around for many years to come.
And when you can count several US Government Departments and some of the world largest corporations as your customers, well that is fine by me.
The truth is, the reason they are not going to Amsterdam is because they would look stupid there.
And likewise if this is such a great European Event then London should be a much better place to locate to then Lisbon.
Lisbon is not even on the IT map ANYWHERE!
Lisbon is great for start-ups? Don’t make me laugh!
I thought Dublin was the start-up Capital of Europe. Or has then changed now!
And Enda Kenny is only interested when he gets to rub shoulders with some famous people.
And then pretends he cares about Irish businesses.
maybe people should start focussing on re-building Ireland by producing proper products with a proper reputation.
Look at every other country on the Planet, and you will quickly find they are not successful for no reason. They focus on product and not hyped up nonsense.
If you do not entirely agree with me that is fine.
Just look some of the products you own and use everyday.
then ask yourself, “Do I LIKE this company, and do I trust them to deliver me a decent, value for money product.
You will soon agree that, yes not even you, would spend your hard earned money on hype and hot air. Unless you are a deluded fool, but I always assume people are smart.
Not very often do you hear someone other then myself say “They are all full of SH*T”
I do agree that this guy has set up a nice event and worked hard to make it a success.
But as I noticed, they very quickly got sidetracked by the $$$$$$$$ and lost the plot totally.
If it is ok for him to get rich, ok that is fine. But as I always say, if your motive is to get rich you might as well become a drug dealer. They make a lot more money!
In my opinion, Dublin – Attention to detail for events like this – 0. Taking everything for granted!
Lisbon and Portugal will hit top marks as they know how to attract and retain this and I for one am delighted that the event is going there – bravo!. An old European saying is never spit into the soup but I don’t think event organisers (RDS) or any of the crowd reaping benefits from this give a toss about that and happily spit away into the soup – someday you have to taste that very same soup folks! And today is the day.
Sadly since the “boom” and it continues today only a few get the quids in this country, the majority of people who do work hard are happy to not question or revolt against it…I mean just reading the journal and the amount of corruption and state of affairs the country is in and the arrogance the politicians have reads like a banana republic!
I am just hoping that all the contributors here do take action – so much of what is being commented is excellent – some trolling but that’s the greatness of being able to express via these forums. Ireland has the potential to be not a good country but a great country, it belongs to everyone of us who have earned our rights to be here, respecting this country is our first priority and if we don’t have people showing that respect to us (politicians, cronies etc.), we need to take action. We may criticise the Greeks but for me they represent a fighting spirit, one we as Irish have been famous for abroad but somehow have lost it or diluted it.We need more than words and more action guys and together every Irishman, woman and child can shape their future – not the future of a bunch of crooked politicians and business men.
The population of Dublin is far in excess of 527,000. Try 1,273,069. Dublin includes Dublin city, Fingal, South Dublin and Dun Laoighaire.
This is why we cant have anything nice coming here, reminds me of the Simpsons episode where they are trying to make a movie and the town fleeces them for everything they are worth.
Alex white has it under control.
WI FI… I mean bye bye
Congrats to all involved
overhyped and overrated good riddance!
The title on this article is ridiculous. How much are they being paid..they aren’t saying? This wasn’t even addressed in the article? Were they “paid” to leave Dublin and if so why is the speculation at least not addressed in the article…the Journal is unfortunately going downhill in my opinion..
after “careful consideration” the company(accountant) had decided to move the event. Ireland is not such a great place to do business in, far too many people in government need to be paid off.
Well he can probably make more money for himself there.
What a disaster for Dublin the so called IT tech capitol of Europe!!!!!But I totally understand the move – for a country which has more tech and IT companies than other European countries its size, the infrastructure for people living in the country is very poor and to be honest pretty low tech. Forget Dublin and the alleged fibre optic speed bands there, people outside the pale struggle with poor telecom and internet networks, particularly those in Co. Cork! Perhaps the joke of Eircom now rebranded to Eir (how much did that cost again…?) will look at this as a sign of things to come….sorry guys but Dublin you are too expensive, offer poor quality and take things for granted. If events like this cannot be maintained, developed, showcased or the vision of those benefiting from this too short term i.e. grab the cash (Celtic Tiger Syndrome) and feck the rest! then no wonder the organiser is bailing.
I am delighted that Lisbon has grabbed this, plus the climate, the culture, food and the fabulous hospitality and great value price!!! the Portuguese capitol will bring to such an event.
“Dublin the so called IT tech capitol of Europe!” I honestly don’t know where these sayings come from….A self awarded title no doubt.
These sayings come from our Deluded Government. Enda and co electioneering and saying we are the best little country to do business. How lucky we are to have this and that. Complete propaganda BS.
No surprise. They couldn’t get the Wi Fi to work properly last year. Only in Ireland; the web failed at the global Web Summit. You can imagine the organizers saying: never, never, never again. We have all been duped, in this country, into thinking that 5 Megabits per Second is broadband, and 90% of users don’t even get anything near that anyway.
doing a U2/ DoB on it then: I’m here, but I’m not really here……..
They started selling this year’s tickets weeks after last year’s websummit. What will happen to people who bough this year’s tickets expecting it to be in Dublin?
This year WebSummit is in Dublin, and it’s moved to Lisbon from next year… so people who bought ticket are fully secure :)
I suppose they got tired of the fleecing they got from hotels restaurants etc, but what will we do for all the z list celebrity stories
OK STOP!
Why is everyone mentioning the WIFI issues being one of the reasons they are moving?
STOP THIS BULLSH*T
Not to long ago someone told you “The price will ONLY GO UP” and a lot jumped on that like a bunch of dumb sheep!
Are a lot of you really that gullible that you believe everything you read, without ANY thought process what so ever?
What’s next, They are moving because of the WEATHER? At least that I might believe
The cheapest ticket to the Dublin Web Summit is €598? 22,000 people attended last year? Are both these figures true?
Feckers
Basically GREED AND INFRASTRUCTURE are the reasons.
Final one – what about Plan B…..was there a back up event just in case….nope!
Its just like everything again – take it for granted, sure its making money for the selected few and they all got their slice!
What will happen and the day it does…well…when the IT companies will leave and the pharma companies as the tax situation will eventually change…our good old boys in the Dail will look at each other and say…what do we do now….
A simple rule in business and applies to anything – Fail to Plan…Plan to Fail!
Cosgrave did warn last year that problems with the broadband might cause them to leave Ireland.
The greatest little country in the World to do business !!! who said that.
doesn’t he look like an owl?
Looks like Lisbon is on the Wifi Atlantic Way and Dublin is not.
Ryanair will be increasing the price and putting on extra flights to all airports in Portugal now
Your man doesn’t give a 2h1te where he has it as long as he is making the money. Why have it it Dublin when you can go to any country in the world off the back of it
The fruits of our abysmal broadband and transport infrastructure.
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