The founder of the Web Summit Paddy Cosgrave has called on Larry Goodman and Michael O’Leary, among others, to donate to Ireland’s fight against coronavirus.

He said on Friday that the Web Summit had donated €1m to ChangeX for the fight against the virus.

“We're donating €1 million to Ireland's fight against #Covid_19

“Over to @denisobrien_, Larry Goodman, Dermot Desmond, JP McManus, Michael O'Leary and others to step up.

“We’re in this fight together. And we will only prevail by standing together,” [sic] he said in a tweet on Friday.

What is ChangeX

ChangeX is an Irish-founded platform that brings people together to work on initiatives for the public good, a statement from Web Summit said.

“They support grassroots projects, social innovators and local community leaders across Ireland and beyond. They’ve already supported campaigns like Men’s Sheds and ParkRun, two of the most powerful social movements of the last decade, and they’ve committed to mobilising 20 million projects by 2030 in partnership with the United Nations and its Sustainable Development Goals.

“We’re donating €1 million to ChangeX, who will then identify, fund and spread projects aimed at strengthening Ireland’s response to COVID-19. This funding will be allocated exclusively to COVID-19 projects.

“These projects may focus on supporting our elderly, our most isolated and most vulnerable during this crisis. They may be tech-based solutions that will help consolidate our national response to COVID-19 – anything that can be replicated by other communities across Ireland and that will help ensure we emerge stronger from this pandemic,” it said.

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