Full coverage: Daire Hickey

A confidential strategy document warned of the reputational considerations and advised Web Summit to get ahead of the story and downgrade as far as possible the alleged hacking of the Dublin Tech Summit.

Web Summit co-founder Daire Hickey claims Paddy Cosgrave told staff at a "town hall" address that they should either deal with the stress or leave the company and accept that they would only ever be "average people" or "civil servants". Hickey is suing Cosgrave for minority shareholder oppression.