A five-star hotel in Co Wicklow has cancelled bookings for an August conference linked to US tech billionaire Peter Thiel.
The planned event at the Powerscourt Hotel Resort and Spa—an invitation-only gathering hosted by Dialog, a group co-founded by Thiel and entrepreneur Auren Hoffman—will not now go ahead at the venue.
The event was scheduled to bring together more than 200 senior figures from politics, technology, defence and finance and was reported to include attendance by a senior NATO commander and officials from the Trump administration.
Criticism mounted after the conference details were leaked and campaigners objected to Thiel’s involvement, as well as Dialog’s association with Palantir, a defence technology company known for work connected to mass surveillance and criticised for its role with Israel’s military operations in Gaza.
Following the backlash, Powerscourt Estate said it was “relieved and pleased” after the conference was cancelled, after discussions between the estate and the hotel. The hotel itself confirmed the publicised August event would no longer take place and said it had “no further comment.”
Pro-Palestine groups, including a campaign called Drop Dialogue, had planned demonstrations at the Powerscourt Estate in the coming weeks. Those protests were also expected not to proceed now that the August conference is off.
Campaigners said the cancellation was a result of public pressure and vowed to watch for any attempt to relocate the conference to other venues in Ireland.
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