At a superficial level, Cosgrave may be considered a martyr to corporate censorship. Another look might suggest he was brought down by his own restless, scattergun bellicosity
Former Web Summit chief Paddy Cosgrave still owns more than 80 per cent of the business – Ireland certainly hasn’t seen the last of him. Photograph: Eric Luke’s Twitter/X life reveal something beyond the fact that the former Web Summit CEO’s comment that “war crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies” was pretty uncontroversial in Irish terms or barely distinguishable from the firmly-articulated, pro-Palestinian stance of the Irish government over decades.
Some have learned that to their cost. Maha Dakhil, a top agent at Creative Artists Agency – with clients including Tom Cruise and Reese Witherspoon –, a 26-year-old Irish-based employee of an Israeli tech company was dismissed over posts describing Israel as a “terrorist” state, and the “root cause of the violence” as “a Zionist ideology”.
PR companies note clients’ new caution, “understanding that perceptions can be shifted by superfine nuances of language and tone”, as. Another compared it to a geopolitical Roe vs Wade for corporates. The COO of Asana, a Californian software company which remains silent, said the company’s guiding principle was: “What problem are we trying to solve?”
In the following days he complained about “FFG-aligned Irish academics trying to use deaths in Israel to score political points against Sinn Féin in Ireland” and noted the Government’s rejection of an EU commissioner’s effort to halt aid to Gaza but mainly retweeted domestic Ditch stories.“War crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies . . . ” – he also posted a picture of Donegal looking “absolutely spectacular”.
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