Web Summit

Web Summit pulls funding from The Ditch website with immediate effect

The company said it would no longer fund the investigative website

Eoghan McNeil, editor, and Roman Shortall, investigative journalist, at The Ditch. Picture: Bryan Meade

The board of Web Summit has pulled funding from The Ditch website with immediate effect.

The investigative website’s reporting previously led to the resignations of junior ministers Robert Troy and Damien English, and the deputy chair of An Bord Pleanála Paul Hyde.

The conference organiser said on Tuesday evening it would no longer fund the website. Editor Eoghan McNeil earlier this year said Web Summit was providing it with funding of approximately €1 million over ...