Paddy Cosgrave
Founder and CEO of Web Summit. The opening dossier covers the October 2023 apology cycle as the most clearly receipted leadership event in the public record around him.
Frozen archive · May 2026
kino.ie is no longer expanding named-person dossiers. Existing public-record pages remain online as an archive while the domains are reconsidered for safer Irish entertainment, creator-economy, and format-led uses.
kino.ie was the long-form archive arm of an Irish online-culture commentary project. The named-person dossier lane is now frozen: no new targets, no queue expansion, and no active discovery work.
Existing pages remain available for reference and correction handling. Future use of the domain should favour format-led Irish media, TV, creator-economy, or internet-history work rather than public-person roast files.
The people index is preserved as a frozen archive. It is not an active queue and should not be treated as a publishing roadmap.
Founder and CEO of Web Summit. The opening dossier covers the October 2023 apology cycle as the most clearly receipted leadership event in the public record around him.
White Moose Cafe / Charleville Lodge proprietor and Sabhna Saunas operator. The dossier walks the launch-era CCTV row, coeliac-note cycle, Bloggergate, closure retrospective, and archived web residue.
Cork TikTok creator and RedFM presenter. The dossier covers the creator-to-broadcaster crossover from the Irish Examiner profile through RedFM, DWTS, TikTok Awards, and current station continuity.
Dublin talk-radio host. The dossier bounds the 2024 candidacy loop: fact-check, Independent Ireland European run, same-day forced exit from air, official result, and return-to-radio endpoint.
Direct Democracy Ireland launch figure and Liberty Republic leader. The file walks the repeated candidacy ladder, register oddities, bounded legal endpoints, and 2025 Court of Appeal joinder ruling.
The foundational pieces — read these first if you're new to the site. They explain the editorial standards, voice, and scope that the dossiers above sit on top of:
Definitions, ethics framework, and what separates commentary from harassment. Read this first.
Read →Public version of our hard-lines doc. What counts as a receipt, what's a hard-no regardless of receipts, conduct vs character.
Read →Transparent statement of the Kino Casino tonal influence and how we adapt it. Mockery, evidenced — never invective without receipts.
Read →Reality TV, creators, online-political theatre, controversial commentators. Not minors, not unverified sex/crime/addiction claims, not litigation we'd directly ingest.
Read →Long-form analyses of Irish internet culture as a phenomenon — the formats, the platforms, the patterns. These pieces don't single out individuals; they describe the medium.
Methodology piece. The recurring shapes a drama takes — initial blow-up, allies and defectors, the apology cycle, the revisionist post-mortem.
Read →Historical piece, format-led not person-led. Boards.ie thread culture, Twitter/X, TikTok, Twitch, the Patreon-to-Substack migration.
Read →Comparative cultural piece. Why US Kino Casino formats don't quite work for Irish material — population scale, parish dynamics, defamation regime.
Read →lads.ie is also paused for named-person cow-board expansion. If the domains are reused, the likely lane is Irish reality TV, creator economy, and format explainers.