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THE WEB SUMMIT has announced that MoneyConf, a financial services and fintech conference, will be held in Dublin.
This year’s conference is kicking off in Madrid, Spain today.
The Web Summit moved to Lisbon in 2016 after being held in the Irish capital for a number of years.
When the move to Portugal was announced in 2015, email correspondence between government officials and organisers of the tech conference revealed how the relationship deteriorated as the event’s founder raised concerns about traffic management, public transport, hotel costs and WiFi at the RDS.
This morning, Web Summit co-founder and CEO Paddy Cosgrave announced that MoneyConf would be held in Dublin.
In a statement, organisers said: “We’re providing €1.5 million a year in free tickets to students from every school and college in Ireland to all our events globally.
Brexit is transforming Dublin as a financial centre. Major banks, credit card companies and fintech startups have all signed leases in recent months. JP Morgan is moving up to 1,000 bankers alone to Dublin from London. It’s an incredible moment.
“And it’s in this moment that we’re moving MoneyConf, which is already one of the world’s leading financial services and fintech conferences, to our hometown Dublin.”
The statement added that the timing of return “has nothing to do with Enda Kenny’s departure [as Taoiseach]“.
A public press conference about the move will be held in the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin at 8am on Thursday, 22 June.
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Ballina is right to be proud as Ireland should be of a man who may be a son of Deleware and the USA but a son of Eireann too…what a welcome he will get when he returns as President
@Kevin50: I here too son of Eireann…
Why did I read that as “Coke and Champagne”.
@John Sheahan: it’s Ballina, not South Dublin :-)
@Joe Vlogs: it’s like the virus, it’s everywhere
@John Sheahan: article would have been more interesting if it was about that!
I hope that Mayo will be able to present Sam Maguire to President Joe Biden when he travels to his ancestral home while he is in office.
@C_O’S: Louth have a better chance of doing that.
@Mike Keane: Ouch!
@C_O’S: thanks I needed cheering up and that’s the best laugh I’ve had in ages
@C_O’S: not in this lifetime
James Finnegan from Lordship was Joe Bidens grandfather, I know I researched his family tree, the Blewitts in Ballina are related through great grandparents.
they’ll all be coming out of the woodwork now with their fiddles and harps and highfalutin stories of the bygone days
Great for Ballina hope to see the yanks roll in after covid
Biden is from Cork ffs. “Bye then”…Hello???
It’s all horse manure
Only 170 years late
Rumours have it locally anyway that President Joe Biden has relatives in Taghmon Co Wexford
It’s “Wahu”. Not “Whau”!
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