Yesterday, Altada’s woes appeared to be at an end. The receiver appointed to sell the insolvent Cork artificial intelligence firm struck a confidential deal with cybersecurity entrepreneur Eoin Goulding to take over the business. While the terms of the sale are unknown, the sum on the table is apparently sufficient to keep blood flowing through the AI start-up which since its founding in 2017 has racked up millions in debt and has often seemed incapable of learning from its own mistakes. Then last night came a rather large fly in the ointment: a report by John Healy of the accountancy…

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