The amusing thing about paddy getting himself cancelled the tweet actually praised the Irish government’s response who he’s been criticising almost every day for the last five years
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This is from 2021
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He’ll never live down the Patty thing.
It’s like when @Fran singlehandedly ended Scottish club football as a going concern when he referred to “Hamish McJockstrap” of “Cock-A-Leekie Thistle”.
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Sinn Fein are like the Irish rugby team peaking in the middle of the cycle and falling apart for the election
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Hard to believe that was 6 years ago
Time is a construct
Amazon out now too.
Adrian Weckler is just saying that Patty and his Web Summit is fucked on Brendan O’Connor.
‘A Patty’ will have to be a module on all Trinity business programmes
‘A Patty’ lessons in torching a cash cow and destroying a €500 million valuation
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Surely someone like Niall Harbison will seize this and set up his own web summit once he’s finished feeding dogs in Thailand
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Surely he steps away or other directors tell him he has breached contracts. He is causing the loss of a lot of investment and jobs with his fuckacting and the board must have grounds for dismissal on gross misconduct.
I don’t think he was hugely wrong in what he said, but he has to play the game here and coming out so strong against Israel is a stupid move for someone is his position.
At the end of it all tho, fuck him. Hes only a cunt.
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It’s a private company that he owns 80% of.
What will be interesting is what the contracts with the likes of Lisbon say….
They’ve paid a lot of money expecting a lot of visitors.
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Poor oul’ Patty met with a workplace accident.
Lads, Web Summit cannot be saved.
It’s over.
If Patty was as smart as he thought he was he would have structured it in a way that he could have been ‘fired immediately’
That was their only out and that should have been engineered Day 1
WS Ltd was never structured that way because the narcissistic megalomaniac Patty couldn’t foresee being called out.
Patty was very fond of throwing writs at opponents when the cash was flowing, right now today with all the cancellations the upcoming web summit is on track to be the next Fyre Festival.
There are 5 years left on Web Summits Lisbon deal, the Portuguese doubled the size of their convention centre at Patty’s demand, they paid WS €11m per event/year - Lisbon reckoned they yielded €300m + pa in return.
Would love to see the contract - have Portugal now a claim on WS?
Yeah it would be very interesting. They will surely have a get out with them beyond this year.
As someone else said, even if people went now, they couldn’t possibly post anything about it.
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This might be as enjoyable as watching united burn
Patty “liked” a tweet by The Ditch on October 7th which was a large Palestinian flag and nothing else.
My bet is Patty was himself behind that tweet. But whether he was or not is irrelevant, because he “liked” it, and thus endorsed it, and thus it becomes his publicly stated view.
There’s a thing called a time and a place. There’s a thing called reading the room.
That “like” of the Ditch tweet did for him more than any other single thing. But his other tweets and “likes” built up a wider picture.
Patty has such a planet sized ego that he believed he was uncancellable. He’s uncancellable with his target Irish domestic audience, and with those internationally who support the Russia/China/Iran/BRICS axis.
But his most lucrative target market was not in those countries.
Know your market.
I expect he’ll pivot into being a full blown pro-BRICS, anti-west provocateur now. There’s an outside chance it could precipitate a move into actual politics for him, but I couldn’t see him being up for the drudgery of being a TD. He might fancy a run at the Park, but the Park has no power. Patty is definitely cursing his luck that Ireland has a parliamentary system and not a directly elected executive President.