Profile:Paddy Cosgrave

Factfile:

Age: 31

Occupation: founder of the Web Summit

Appearance: tall, bestriding tech bro

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 really odd indeed.

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