Close to 300 of Ireland’s tech community were gathered in a confined space in Dogpatch Labs on Thursday night and in every lull Paddy Cosgrave filled the gap.  But this was more than whispered rumours about the flat and dejected atmosphere inside Web Summit, or which high-profile speaker would pull out next. This was counting time on whether the co-founder of Web Summit could hold on as chief executive of the tech conference that has suffered its greatest ever PR disaster as a direct result of his actions.  News had just broken that Siemens and Intel, two major sponsors of…

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