Paddy Cosgrave is right on housing - so why isn’t he doing something about it?

The Web Summit founder has access - and plenty of it - to senior government decision-makers up to and including the Taoiseach

Paddy Cosgrave took part in Take Back the City demonstration. Pic: RollingNews.ie

Paddy Cosgrave has had a fairly rocky relationship with the Irish government in recent years.

When he pulled the Web Summit out of Dublin in 2015, a series of emails revealed a deterioration in relations as Cosgrave’s requests for more government assistance went unanswered. AsThe Sunday Business Post revealed at the time, Cosgrave wanted free public transport and a chunk of Dublin city effectively shut down. For the most part, the government was ...