Web Summit funding of €1m for The Ditch as editor rejects ‘anti-government’ tag

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Eoghan McNeill said The Ditch was an independent platform that was financed by its subscribers, which “would be in the four figures”, while funding from the Web Summit over the “next half decade or so would be about a million euro”.

Mr Martin said he would “love to know who is funding the Ditch in its entirety” and referred to the fact that one of the founders of The Ditch, Chay Bowes, had views on the war in Ukraine that had been praised by the Russian embassy in Dublin.

“I would say that it [a change of Government] doesn’t motivate what we do or don’t publish,” he said. “At the same time, Paddy [Cosgrave] and I have similar views on the State, how power operates.” In a statement on Twitter on Saturday, Mr Cosgrave called for Mr Martin’s comments in the Dail to be referred to the Oireachtas Committee on Parliamentary Privileges and Oversight so that his “baseless allegations” could be withdrawn.

 

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