Back in February 2022, when Cork artificial-intelligence firm Altada was a promising start-up pushing for series A funding, co-founder Allan Beechinor phoned a GP the company had engaged in London for AI development and told him “this is not working out”. A lot of water has flown under the bridge between that call, letting go Dr Eugene O’Connor, and the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) ruling on January 16, 2024, that the GP had been unfairly dismissed – with an award of €16,814 in compensation. For one, Altada is a busted flush, every step of its collapse and liquidation well-documented in…

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