Right. Folder one. Open it.

Paddy Cosgrave is the only Irish chief executive in the last decade to do all four of the following inside an eighteen-month window: post one of his own opinions about a foreign war on his own X account in his own first-party voice; have Web Summit publish his apology for it on Web Summit's own corporate blog; resign as Web Summit CEO with "immediate effect" on a Saturday; come back as Web Summit CEO six months and seventeen days later; walk back onto the Web Summit Lisbon main stage and open with the line "é bom estar de volta", which is Portuguese for "it's good to be back," because of course he did; and then settle the long-running shareholder dispute against him by buying the two co-founders out at the High Court. He is, in this very specific sense, the Irish founder-CEO of his generation. He is the worked example. The man rebuilt the brand inside a year. Folder one is open and we are walking through it.

The honest version of this piece is that v1 of it shipped yesterday and was bad. It was an Irish Times-flavoured essay with two receipts and a closing paragraph that sounded like an annual report. It said an interim CEO was appointed; the company's own site says Katherine Maher was named CEO outright on 30 October 2023.9 It said "we'll backfill the footnotes when they land"; the footnotes had landed. It defended him at the close, which is a weird move on a site whose tagline is "Irish pop culture with receipts." This is the second draft. The receipts came in. They make the case differently.

How this file works. Every claim below names someone, points at a receipt, and ties to a captured snapshot. The capture pile lives on the sister archive at kino.ie/people/paddy-cosgrave.html with SHA-256 hashes, archive timestamps and source URLs for all twenty-seven items. Footnotes here number 1–18 — the kino.ie file uses its own ID system. Where the receipt is "do not expand beyond the captured wording," we don't. Where there's a clip, we point at the clip. The bit is structural; the receipts are the receipts.

Folder 1 — the 2009 origin, and how a Dublin meet-up ended up running the High Court

The first Web Summit was held in Dublin in 2009 and the Irish Times' own profile of the event two years later3 said the first conference came about "by accident," which is one of those things you say in a business profile when what you actually mean is "we ran a panel night, three hundred people turned up, and we extrapolated." It was a small event. The 8 April 2024 Web Summit blog post that announced the company's "new mission" itself describes the origin as a 150-person gathering.10 150. That's a quiet wedding. By 2025 a separate Irish Times timeline of the company4 walked the trajectory from "150 attendees at first Web Summit" — the headline's phrase, not ours — "to Lisbon and then the High Court," and listed the founders as Paddy Cosgrave, David Kelly and Daire Hickey. Three names. Hold that.

Cosgrave was the front of house from the start. The other two were not. That distinction will matter in a few folders' time. For now: Web Summit's corporate skeleton is two Irish companies, both incorporated within three weeks of each other in the back end of 2012 — Manders Terrace Limited (company number 520210, incorporation 16 November 2012) and Web Summit Services Limited (company number 521083, incorporation 6 December 2012).5 Manders Terrace is the parent. Web Summit Services is the operating shell. Three founders, two registered companies, one front-of-house. That's the structure that runs into 2018 and the structure that the High Court will eventually be asked to rearrange.

Folder 2 — the Lisbon move, or how Dublin lost the brand

You remember the 2015 row about it. We all do. The official version, captured on the company's own trade-press anchor — TechCentral, 23 September 20156 — has Cosgrave confirming Web Summit was leaving Dublin for Lisbon from 2016. The unofficial version is that there were arguments about Wi-Fi at the RDS, arguments about hotel availability in Dublin, arguments about taxi capacity, arguments about the cost of bratwurst at the food trucks; the catalogue of complaints was so long that by the time the announcement landed, half of Dublin tech Twitter could recite the grievance list from memory. We won't litigate which version is right. We don't need to. What we have is the receipt: 23 September 2015, the company says it's leaving.

Twelve months later — 21 September 2016 — there's a photograph on the Portuguese government's own website7 of Cosgrave standing beside the prime minister of Portugal at a "Road to Web Summit Lisbon" event. The Portuguese got the keys to the city. Dublin got a permanent recurring complaint about the one we let go. That's a feature of the Irish national mood, not a Cosgrave fact, but it's worth saying out loud: he had every commercial reason to move and he moved, and the country is still annoyed about it on a per-November basis nine years later. Felted by national infrastructure. Kino because the diaspora bookings page on Aer Lingus genuinely had a Web Summit week spike for years afterwards.

Folder 3 — the receipt nobody talks about, which is the 2021 lawsuit

The Tubridy file had the €345,000. The Cosgrave file has — and this is the part of the chronology that the v1 of this piece walked past too quickly — a 2021 High Court suit by David Kelly's holding company, Graiguearidda, against Manders Terrace, Cosgrave personally, and a separate vehicle called Proto Roto, alleging shareholder oppression. Irish Times, 8 November 2021. The headline is on the captured page and we are not paraphrasing it: Paddy Cosgrave to vigorously defend bullying claims, High Court hears.8

That's a court report. Important reminder, fully serious about this: a "claim" in a High Court filing is a claim, not a finding. Nothing in that filing was tested or adjudicated and the dispute would, four years later, settle without a verdict. The receipt for this folder is therefore narrow: there was a publicly-reported lawsuit by one of his co-founders' holding companies, naming him personally, the headline of which was that he intended to "vigorously defend" the claims. That's the receipt. That's all the receipt does. We're not filling in beyond it. The file's editorial position is that the existence of a public, multi-year, named legal proceeding involving the chief executive of one of Ireland's most internationally recognised companies is, on its own, a thing you should know was running underneath everything that came next.

It was running underneath everything that came next. Including October 2023.

Folder 4 — the eight days. Open the folder slowly. This is the one.

13 October 2023, a Friday. Cosgrave posts to his X account. The post is preserved on the public record at status ID 171072396047039728911 and we have a same-day live-observed capture plus secondary support. The receipt's hard line is that we don't expand the wording beyond what the captured page preserves; the captured page preserves the URL and the framing, which Codex's archive titles as "shocked at rhetoric and actions." That's the soft opener.

Same day. The escalation. Status ID 171279053984461255312, captured the same way, supported by a Hacker News thread that preserves the wording widely cited at the time. The archive title is the one that did the damage: "war crimes are war crimes." Four words. From Paddy. About a war that had broken out six days previously. On a Friday afternoon in Dublin. From a verified business-account that was also, structurally, the public-facing identity of an Irish technology business with hundreds of speaker contracts and dozens of sponsorships out the door for an event seven weeks away in Lisbon. That post is the one. Everything in folder 4 is downstream of that post.

Sunday 15 October. Status ID 171396451988451344613. The receipt's archive name is "I will not relent." The capture preserves the URL and the secondary HN-thread support. He posts. The thing escalates. He doubles. The board, somewhere offstage, sees the doubling and starts dialling. The Web Summit team, fully serious, would have spent that weekend doing crisis comms in real time while he was still posting. We are not making that up; that is what crisis comms is for and that is what crisis comms always does in that situation; we just don't have a primary on it because the only people who do are the crisis-comms people themselves and they don't write blog posts.

Monday 16 October. TechCrunch already has the story.14 The headline of the captured TechCrunch piece runs as "Web Summit derailed by founder's public fight with those supporting Israel in Hamas conflict." "Derailed." That's a strong word for a piece running before any sponsor has formally pulled out. TechCrunch knew where this was going. TechCrunch wrote the future tense.

Tuesday 17 October. Web Summit publishes the apology1, on Web Summit's own corporate news section, under the headline Apology from Paddy Cosgrave. First-party. Hard-line clean. Paddy's name on the page, Paddy's words on the page, Paddy's apology on the page. Web Summit's own server. The page is still up on the same URL it went up on; the same-day archive.org capture exists; the SHA-256 hash is on file. We are not paraphrasing the apology. We are not summarising the apology. The apology is one click away from this paragraph and you can read it yourself. What matters is that Tuesday 17 October is the day the company switched modes from "running the November conference" to "managing the founder."

It didn't help.

Friday 20 October. Irish Times.15 Headline: "Google pulls out of Web Summit over Cosgrave's Israel-Hamas comments." Meta also gone in the same article. Two of the largest sponsors of the entire conference, on the same day, on the front-page business section of the Irish national paper of record. This is not "tech-press grumbling." This is Google. This is Meta. Five weeks before the event.

Saturday 21 October. Limerick Live, Press Association syndicated.16 The full list of named-and-dated withdrawals on the captured page: Google, Meta, Amazon, Siemens, Intel. Five tech giants in five days. Plus — this is in the same piece, on the same day, and it is the one the cultural-press picked up over the weekend — Gillian Anderson withdrew from a speaking role. Gillian Anderson. The X-Files. Sex Education. The Crown. The captured Limerick Live page also carries the line that Cosgrave was resigning with "immediate effect."

Same day. Same hour, more or less. Irish Times.17 Headline: "Paddy Cosgrave resigns as Web Summit chief with 'immediate effect' over Israel-Hamas comments." The Irish Times piece carries his own line that the comments had become "a distraction" from the Lisbon event. "A distraction." That is, fully serious about this, the most Irish corporate framing it is possible to apply to losing five tech giants and an X-Files cast member in a single working week. A distraction.

Tuesday 24 October. Web Summit publishes "Web Summit looking forward"18 on its own news section. First-party. The captured page confirms Cosgrave has resigned as CEO and from the board, frames the resignation as driven by his "personal comments," and says management will lead the company pending appointment of a new CEO. Note "appointment of a new CEO," not "appointment of an interim CEO." This is the line v1 of this piece got wrong. Correcting it on the second pass.

Eight days. From the Friday "war crimes are war crimes" post to the company's first-party "Cosgrave has resigned as CEO and from the board" post. Eight days. Felted: anyone, including the v1 of this article, who described the 2023 sequence as "a six-day news cycle." It was an eight-day governance cycle and the difference matters because the four extra days are the days the board took to remove him from the board.

Folder 5 — the Maher era, and the bit we got wrong yesterday

30 October 2023. Web Summit publishes "A letter from Web Summit's new CEO Katherine Maher"9, on the company's own news section. The post is first-party, dated, captured. The headline says new CEO, not interim CEO. The body of the post links the leadership change to the "overshadowed" 2023 event. Maher is, in Web Summit's own framing, the person running the company. Not a placeholder. Not a caretaker. Not a bridge.

Two weeks after that — 14 November 2023, the eve of the Lisbon event — Web Summit's own results page19 quotes Maher as CEO. Web Summit's own communications, between 30 October 2023 and the November Lisbon event, called Maher CEO. We — meaning the v1 of this piece — called her interim. That was wrong. The correction, fully serious, is that there is no public-record evidence of an interim period; she was hired into the role with the title "CEO," she ran the November 2023 Lisbon event in that role, and the only thing that turned out to be temporary about it was the duration. Five and a half months. We will come to that in folder 6.

For the record, because this is a worked example of how the file's correction policy works in practice: the v1 line was "an interim CEO was named on the same afternoon." That line is now gone from this page. The receipt that proves it was wrong (Web Summit's own 30 October 2023 post calling her CEO) is footnoted at the head of this folder. The lads.ie editorial policy is on the editorial page: when we get a fact wrong, we correct it at the original URL with a timestamp. Done.

Folder 6 — the wilderness, and the one-post return

Six months and seventeen days. That's the gap between Cosgrave resigning on 21 October 2023 and Web Summit publishing "Web Summit's new mission" on 8 April 202410. The captured page is, on its own, oddly subdued — it walks through Web Summit's history starting with the 150-person Dublin gathering and lays out an eight-paragraph corporate mission. Read in isolation it could be a strategic-update post from any technology business in the second quarter of any year.

It is not. The way the press read it is the way Web Summit intended the press to read it. The same-day TechCrunch piece — captured at the time, supporting reference in the kino.ie dossier under the candidate notes for receipt 22 — went up under the headline "Paddy Cosgrave returns as Web Summit CEO after resigning over Israel-Gaza controversy." Reuters / Investing.com filed the same day under a similar lede: "Web Summit CEO returns six months after resigning." There is no public-record evidence of a press release pre-briefing; there is, instead, the pattern that on Monday 8 April 2024, Web Summit posted a corporate-mission piece, every major tech outlet on the planet wrote up Cosgrave's return as CEO within hours, and by the close of business on the East Coast the LinkedIn-bio update had already happened.

Sub-heading on this one: in fairness to him, the man absolutely buried the announcement under a corporate-restructure post. That is a press strategy. That is, fully respectfully, the kind of move you'd run if you wanted the news to break once, in a single news cycle, in a way that the company's own communications team controlled the framing of. Did it work? Look at the news cycle. There is no follow-up. There is no week-two analysis. There is no "Cosgrave's First Hundred Days." It worked. It worked exactly the way press strategies are designed to work.

What happened to Maher, formally, is in the same press cycle. What happened to the apology page is nothing — it's still up on the same URL it went up on in October 2023 and you can click it from the receipts list at the foot of this article and read the original page in 2026. Web Summit, fully understood, made a strategic decision in late 2023 to leave the apology page up, on the assumption that any future cleanup attempt would be the bigger story than just leaving it where it landed. They were right. The page is up. Nobody tried to take it down. The story moved on.

Folder 7 — the it's-good-to-be-back stage, and the line in Portuguese

11 November 2024. Web Summit Lisbon, Centre Stage. Cosgrave's first appearance on the main stage of the company's flagship event since the apology cycle.

Portuguese business outlet ECO is a mainstream press source and they captured the moment.20 The headline of the captured ECO piece — and we are quoting the headline, in quotation marks, because it is a four-word direct quote that he said on stage and that ECO put in quote marks at the head of the article — is "é bom estar de volta", attributed to Paddy Cosgrave. Translates to: "it's good to be back."

It is good to be back.

Read it again. He's standing on the main stage of the conference whose own corporate website still carries — to this day, in 2026, click the link — his apology for the war-crimes-are-war-crimes post that ended his last term as CEO eight days after he posted it. He has been the chief executive of this company again for seven months. He is opening the year's flagship event. The first thing he says, in the language of his host country, is it's good to be back.

Web Summit's own first-party "About" page from the next day21 — captured, hashed, archived — quotes him on female-founded startups and lists him explicitly, by name, on the published page, with the company "Web Summit" and the job title "CEO & Founder." He is back. Web Summit says he is back. ECO says he is back. The press says he is back. He himself, in Portuguese, on his own host's main stage, says it is good to be back. Kino. By any reasonable measure of public restoration this is the moment. Folder 7 is one paragraph long because the receipt is one quote long. É bom estar de volta.

Folder 8 — the angry men, and the part where he just bought them out

The 2021 lawsuit (folder 3) ran in parallel to everything else for four years. By spring 2025 it was time. 28 March 2025, Irish Times.22 Headline: "Web Summit case: three angry men finally settle their differences." The article reports that the High Court dispute had settled after a week of opening statements, and identifies the main outcome as Cosgrave agreeing to acquire Kelly's and Hickey's Manders Terrace shareholdings. Price: not public. Read that again, fully serious about this: the man being sued for shareholder oppression by his two co-founders settled the suit by buying their shares. He did not lose. He did not get bought out. He bought them out. At the High Court. After a week of opening statements at which he was the named defendant.

One month later — 29 April 2025, Irish Times23 — the case was formally "struck out and settled at the High Court", with the court told all matters had been resolved to a satisfactory conclusion between the three parties, and the further detail (from the same outlet on the same day's retry capture24) that the strike-out came with no order on legal costs. No order on costs. Three founders, four years of litigation, opening statements at the High Court, and the case is struck out with each side covering its own. That's not a defeat. That is, in the specific Irish litigation register, a result.

It's the receipt for the underrated event in the file. Up to spring 2025, you could read the post-apology Cosgrave story as conditional — there was a separate legal process running, and any return-to-CEO carried an asterisk. After the 28 March 2025 settlement, no asterisk. The man came back, the apology page stayed up, the speakers came back, the sponsors came back, the co-founders shook hands, walked away, and Web Summit became — formally, on the share register, with the cheque cleared — Cosgrave's company in a way it had never been before.

This is on the public record. The headline says it. The strike-out report says it. The Irish Times' own framing — "three angry men finally settle their differences" — is the closest the paper of record will ever get to a roast.

Folder 9 — what's actually felted, what's actually kino

Felted: anyone in Irish tech who, on the evening of Saturday 21 October 2023, said with confidence to a colleague over a pint that Paddy Cosgrave was finished. He was not finished. He was, eight days into the resignation, six months from the return, eighteen months from the it's-good-to-be-back, and three years and five months from the buyout. The man whose career was over at 11pm on that Saturday is the man whose name is back on the Web Summit Lisbon 2025 session pages as CEO & Founder.2 Felted by the comeback that nobody planned for.

Felted: the v1 of this article, which said an interim CEO was named on the same afternoon as the resignation. Maher was named CEO outright on 30 October 2023, on Web Summit's own news section, in the headline of the post. Corrected on the second pass. The receipt is up. We were wrong, we said we were wrong, the wrong thing is gone. Lads.ie editorial policy in action.

Kino: the four-and-a-half-month gap between "é bom estar de volta" on 11 November 2024 and "three angry men finally settle their differences" on 28 March 2025. Those are two newspaper-headline-grade moments, four months apart, on opposite ends of his comeback arc, both attributable to him by name, both public, both archived. If you want to teach a course on Irish corporate frame-restoration the case study is in those four months and the receipts are footnoted below.

Kino: the editorial decision Web Summit's web team made in late October 2023 to leave the apology page up at the same URL and never touch it. Fully respect. That is a confidence move. That is a long-game move. That page is now part of the company's permanent record, available to anyone who can type a URL, and it hasn't moved an inch in two and a half years. We can verify that for ourselves on capture day, 5 May 2026: the page rendered, hash recorded, archive snapshot saved.1

Kino: the Portuguese language headline on the comeback. É bom estar de volta. If you are running a comeback and you are doing it in another country at a foreign-press-tier business event the absolute optimal play is to deliver the comeback line in the host language so that every Irish outlet has to translate it before they can use it. Half a beat of distance. Just enough to take the edge off. Sure look. He's not stupid.

What this file does not say

It does not say that the political content of the October 2023 X posts was correct. It also does not say it was incorrect. Both of those positions are arguable, both of them have been argued, and neither of them is what this file is for. The file is for public conduct around the posts — the apology, the resignation, the return, the settlement — and the public conduct around the posts is what the receipts cover.

It does not say that the 2021 lawsuit's bullying claim was true. It says that the claim was filed, that the High Court heard it, that Cosgrave's stated position via the Irish Times headline was that he intended to "vigorously defend" it, and that the case eventually settled in 2025 by way of him buying the plaintiffs' shares. The claim was a claim. The settlement was a settlement. We don't know what was in the settlement and the Irish Times says the price isn't public. We are not going to fill in.

It does not say what Maher made of any of this. There is no on-record interview with her about her exit and we are not going to invent one. The Web Summit pages put her in role on 30 October 2023 and out of role by April 2024; that is the receipt. The rest is offstage and stays offstage.

What it does say, and what we'd do differently if asked

What it says, walked from start to finish, is that Paddy Cosgrave is the worked example of the Irish founder-CEO who can absorb a maximum-volume PR crisis, take a six-month sabbatical, walk back onto his own corporate stage, and then settle the longest-running legal threat to his control of the company by writing a cheque for the other side's shares, all without losing the title on the corporate session page he started with in 2009. That is not a moral statement about him. It is a description of the result. The result is that he is more in control of Web Summit at the time of writing — May 2026 — than he was at any point in the company's previous history.

The honest opinion, separate from the receipts: the apology page is the most interesting piece of the whole file. Most chief executives in his position would have got someone to take it down by the second event, on the grounds that the page is "no longer relevant to current operations." Cosgrave's team didn't. The page is still up. We'd describe that as the move of a man who already knew, by Tuesday 17 October 2023, that he was coming back. You don't leave the apology up for two and a half years if your plan is to walk away. You leave it up if your plan is to be standing on stage in Lisbon in November 2024 saying it's good to be back, in Portuguese, while the apology you wrote is one click away on the same domain.

That is, on the public record, the bit. The man wrote the apology. The man stood by the apology. The man came back inside the apology's corporate site, on its own URL structure, with the apology still live in a separate tab, and opened with a four-word Portuguese line. That is not a coincidence. That is a press strategy you can lift directly out of the receipt pile and reuse. Other Irish chief executives are going to. We will write the follow-up when somebody tries.

Closing folder. Right of reply.

If you are Paddy Cosgrave, his counsel, Web Summit, or any third party named on this page and you believe a claim is wrong, the takedown procedure is on the editorial page. 72-hour response. No paid takedowns. Contested receipts pulled pending review per the standard. The capture pile lives at kino.ie/people/paddy-cosgrave.html with full provenance for every claim above. If we got something wrong on the second pass too, the editorial address — editor@lads.ie — is open and we'll fix it on the third pass at the original URL, with a timestamp.

Folder closed.

— lads.ie editorial, 6 May 2026; revised 8 May 2026 against the saturating-receipts pass.

Receipts

  1. ↑ First-party · Statement Web Summit, Apology from Paddy Cosgrave, 17 October 2023. Source · Archive (5 May 2026)
  2. ↑ First-party · Identity Web Summit, Welcome to Web Summit 2025, Lisbon session page (lists Cosgrave as "CEO & Founder"). Source · Archive (11 March 2026)
  3. ↑ Press · Founding Irish Times, Top scores for web event, 28 October 2011 (first event "came about by accident"). Source
  4. ↑ Press · Timeline Irish Times, From 150 attendees at first Web Summit to Lisbon and then the High Court, 18 March 2025 (names Cosgrave, Kelly, Hickey as founders). Source
  5. ↑ Registry · Corporate Vision-Net, Manders Terrace Limited (CRO 520210, incorporated 16 November 2012) and Web Summit Services Limited (CRO 521083, incorporated 6 December 2012). Manders Terrace · Web Summit Services
  6. ↑ Trade press · Move TechCentral, Web Summit confirms Lisbon move from 2016, 23 September 2015. Source
  7. ↑ Government · Identity Portuguese government, "Road 2 Web Summit Lisbon" event with the Prime Minister, 21 September 2016. Source
  8. ↑ Court · Litigation Irish Times, Paddy Cosgrave to vigorously defend bullying claims, High Court hears, 8 November 2021 (Graiguearidda v Manders Terrace, Cosgrave, Proto Roto — shareholder-oppression filing). Claim, not finding. Source
  9. ↑ First-party · Successor Web Summit, A letter from Web Summit's new CEO Katherine Maher, 30 October 2023 — first-party headline says "new CEO," not "interim CEO." Source
  10. ↑ First-party · Return Web Summit, Web Summit's new mission, 8 April 2024 — the post under which the press tied his return as CEO. Same-day TechCrunch and Reuters/Investing.com reports treat the post as the return announcement. Source
  11. ↑ Social · Primary @paddycosgrave on X, status 1710723960470397289, 13 October 2023 (October 2023 cycle, opening post). Source
  12. ↑ Social · Primary @paddycosgrave on X, status 1712790539844612553, 13 October 2023 ("war crimes are war crimes" — supported by Hacker News thread preserving wording). Source · HN support
  13. ↑ Social · Primary @paddycosgrave on X, status 1713964519884513446, 15 October 2023 ("I will not relent" — escalation post). Source
  14. ↑ Tech press · Backlash TechCrunch, Web Summit derailed by founder's public fight with those supporting Israel in Hamas conflict, 16 October 2023. Source
  15. ↑ Press · Withdrawals Irish Times, Google pulls out of Web Summit over Cosgrave's Israel-Hamas comments, 20 October 2023 (also names Meta). Source
  16. ↑ Press · Withdrawals Limerick Live (Press Association syndicated), Web Summit chief Cosgrave resigns amid controversy over Israel-Hamas remarks, 21 October 2023 — names Google, Meta, Amazon, Siemens, Intel withdrawals plus Gillian Anderson speaking-role withdrawal. Source
  17. ↑ Press · Resignation Irish Times, Paddy Cosgrave resigns as Web Summit chief with 'immediate effect' over Israel-Hamas comments, 21 October 2023 (carries his "distraction from the Lisbon event" line). Source
  18. ↑ First-party · Resignation Web Summit, Web Summit looking forward, 24 October 2023 — first-party post confirms Cosgrave resigned as CEO and from the board. Source
  19. ↑ First-party · Maher era Web Summit, Web Summit 2023 numbers, 14 November 2023 — quotes Maher as CEO during Lisbon event week. Source
  20. ↑ Press · Return-to-stage ECO (Portugal), "É bom estar de volta", diz Paddy Cosgrave, 11 November 2024. Source
  21. ↑ First-party · Return-to-stage Web Summit, 'Absolutely stunning' — Paddy Cosgrave, Web Summit CEO, hails record-breaking number of female-founded startups on eve of event, 12 November 2024. Source · Archive (5 May 2026)
  22. ↑ Press · Settlement Irish Times, Web Summit case: three angry men finally settle their differences, 28 March 2025 (settlement after a week of opening statements; Cosgrave to acquire Kelly & Hickey shareholdings, price not public). Source
  23. ↑ Press · Settlement Irish Times, Bitter Web Summit dispute struck out and settled at High Court, 29 April 2025 (court told all matters resolved to satisfactory conclusion). Source
  24. ↑ Press · Settlement detail Irish Times, same article retry capture (29 April 2025) — strike-out with no order on legal costs. Source

Full provenance for every receipt — local SHA-256 hashes, archive.org snapshots where available, capture metadata, supersede notes — lives on the kino.ie dossier at kino.ie/people/paddy-cosgrave.html. The X-post receipts are captured under archive policy same_day_wayback: no with local same-day HTML capture and SHA-256 hash recorded; archive.org rate limits prevented same-day Save Page Now snapshots on 6 May 2026 and the receipts ship with the caveat noted explicitly. Receipt numbers on this page are not the same as the kino.ie file's internal receipt IDs; this article maintains its own footnote sequence and points at the dossier as the audit layer.