Wicklow hotel cancels ‘secretive’ Peter Thiel group conference
- A five-star hotel in Co Wicklow has cancelled bookings for a “secretive” conference which was to be hosted in August by a group cofounded by US tech billionaire Peter Thiel.
- The planned event at the Powerscourt Hotel Resort and Spa, scheduled to be attended by a senior Nato commander and Trump administration officials, will not now go ahead at the venue.
- Thiel was a cofounder of payments group PayPal and Palantir, a defence contractor known for mass surveillance and criticised heavily for its “strategic partnership” with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in its assault on Gaza.
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- A five-star hotel in Co Wicklow has cancelled bookings for a “secretive” conference which was to be hosted in August by a group cofounded by US tech billionaire Peter Thiel.
- The planned event at the Powerscourt Hotel Resort and Spa, scheduled to be attended by a senior Nato commander and Trump administration officials, will not now go ahead at the venue.
- Thiel was a cofounder of payments group PayPal and Palantir, a defence contractor known for mass surveillance and criticised heavily for its “strategic partnership” with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in its assault on Gaza.
Sources: Irishtimes