I took you out of a dead end job in the Dept and got you started in business. In fact it is reasonable for me to claim that I played a major part in the establishment of Hosting 365 having unwillingly provided the initial customer base to Hosting 365(extract from an IRC chat: Steve “there was a small bit of server custom at Novara, which I took when I moved”) and provided a business education to you(in fact for the first 3 years of 365 you implemented the business plan that we had drafted for Novara, get them in the door with cheap domains and upsell them).

From personal experience, one of your strongest personal attributes is the ability to look someone in the eye and tell them a bare faced lie without batting an eyelid, you should be proud of yourself :0). Your repeated claim that you were “locked out” of a technology company does not stand up(http://www.iol.ie/~stripes/circle/35/essays/35.0203.01.html). As you state I was completely non technical so you as the “CTO”(according to your LinkedIn Bio) being locked out by an “utterley technically illiterate” amateur is impossible but it is certainly a good story for public consumption (look at poor Stevie, locked out boo hoo). The only assets a hosting company has are its servers located in a third party data centre and you were CTO with fully, unfettered control over those servers throughout.

You are Ireland’s king of commercial spam having got your 365 business off the ground on the back of it, you removed and abused customer records from Novara for example http://www.eoincostello.ie/worldport.html . You removed money from the company we were both directors of without authorisation and this led to the dissolution of our relationship. This removal of monies by you was reported to the ODCE and Revenue Commissioners http://www.eoincostello.ie/Auditors_letter_re_IWD.pdf

No wonder you don’t want any outside investors in Hosting365 (reference your recent interview with the Sunday Times),you don’t want anyone examining anything. Also it is notable that there are no independant, non executive directors on your board.

As regards the claimed lack of technical ability, as part of my education in Trinity (I note that in his Linkedin bios Stevie refers to his time at St. Pats teacher school as Trinity, another twisting of the truth) I took the computer studies option, hand coding this software application http://www.eoincostello.ie/pdf_doc/final_year_thesis.pdf . In any case I am a business man first and foremost.

Just to put you on notice Stevie, every time you persist in publicly publish inaccuracies and made up stories I am going to put the reality on public record.

Also, it’s probably not the best idea to have a go at Eoin from a literacy standpoint when you spell ‘utterly’ as ‘utterley’!

And you’re right Eoin was and is utterley technically illiterate.

I’m sure you both have different versions of things, as disputes generally tend to do. Either way I don’t care, and i’m sure most of my peers don’t either

You’ve both managed to build hosting companies, and both managed to sell them (or bits of them), so well done to you both.

I felt pity for Eoin because he didn’t seem to have much technical know how, and seemed a bit lost. Alls well that ends well anyway

Just on a point of clarification, whatever way Eoin Costello might have tried to ‘represent’ it – I was locked out of Novara – the business I had founded – in September 2001 by Eoin Costello after he didn’t like what arbitrators were telling him when we tried to dissolve amicably. I set up 365 in January 2002. Any pity you felt for him might well have been misplaced considering my departure was entirely his doing.

It’s also worth noting that the services you had from hosting365 are now part of register365.ie which was sold to names.co.uk in May 2008 – hosting365.com is now solely a managed infrastructure and datacentre provider.