Paddy Cosgrave: Published: November 2, 2014

CV: Paddy Cosgrave

Ages:31

Occupation: founder of the Web Summit

Appearance: tall, bestriding techie

Newsworthiness: his conference will attract more than 20,000 of the tech world’s brightest and best to the RDS in Dublin next week

It was an evening that had already oscillated between the sublime and the surreal, but it was about to get very odd indeed.

The sight of Taoiseach Enda Kenny sitting on stage beside Elon Musk, the founder ...