It took 6 long years from 2009, a dozen Web Summits, sometimes 3 a year, 100’s of meet-ups, thousands of calls & an infinity of emails to get Web Summit in Dublin to the scale it’s taken us just ONE year to achieve in Rio. LatAm tech is booming. Massively proud of Web Summit Team

#WebSummitRio 2024 is now officially sold out.

We can’t wait to welcome you, along with more than 30,000 attendees, to the Cidade Maravilhosa next week.

I shared this with all Web Summit staff globally yesterday. It’s disappointing that an Irish journalist would engage in such activity.

I am the largest funder of investigative journalism in Ireland & organiser of one of the world’s largest conferences on the future of media,…

Morning from Rio! Next week, over 30,000 nerds will be joining us for Web Summit Rio from all over the world, including China, Iceland, India, Gambia, Cuba, Germany, New Zealand, as well as TikTok, BYD, Google, Salesforce, NVIDIA, IBM, Oracle, SAP, Huawei & more.

Asylum seekers receive a daily allowance of €5.54. Ukrainian pets get up to €20 a day.

I’ve never written one of these startup missives, but here goes:

Once upon a time I invested in an Irish startup. It was very early days but the founder talked a huge game. I liked him and loved the sector.

Some rounds later he needed to do a bridging round, but was unwilling…

Ex-garda Tom Higgins, named in an intelligence file linking him to the drug trade, was investigated over a car importation tax scam

Higgins, who only left the force in 2023, was ordered by the High Court in 2017 to pay €65,000 to a bouncer he assaulted

ontheditch.com/drug-trade-lin…

The government has said that if young people who complain they can’t afford a home, didn’t eat avocados for a year, they’d save about €90,000.

In Ireland she would have been appointed by FFG to the board of RTE or some other state board. And that’s the truth.

The Ditch’s 3 journalists, yes just 3, continue to uncover endemic corruption & criminality by government ministers, gardaí, top officials & more.

Legacy Irish media haven’t accidentally missed all this malfeasance, rather they’ve deliberately ignored it & for years.

🚨 The Ditch 🚨
“Gardai kept jobs despite Garda AGSI intelligence linking them to organised crime”

Will Ireland’s new “tough on crime” Taoiseach Simon Harris TD say or do anything? Unlikely. “Law & order” is merely rhetoric & not reality in FFG’s Ireland.

Hurray for The Fcuking Ditch.

An internal garda intelligence file named three Athlone gardaí suspected of involvement in the midlands drug trade.

Ex-plainclothes gardaí George Garvey and Tom Higgins both kept their jobs despite intelligence linking them to the drug trade.

ontheditch.com/gardai-intelli…

🚨 The Ditch has obtained a 2014 internal garda intelligence file naming Athlone-based gardaí accused of links with the drug trade 🚨

This week we will name these gardaí.

🙏🏼Simon Coveney did the state (property developers) some service when he brought us Paul Hyde 🙏🏼

Episode four with Red Wolf drops tomorrow evening