Article Category: Behind the Scenes

HACKMAN’S NEW PLOT

February 12, 2026

HARDLY HAD the ink dried on Goldhawk’s report of a default on a $1.1bn studio mortgage in sunny California for Ardmore and Troy... Read more »

OLIVER SEARS’S COMMITTEE WORK

January 29, 2026

AS JANUARY draws to an end there is still no sign of any report from the Government’s committee on the repatriation of cultural... Read more »

PAT KIELY’S GOOD NEWS

January 15, 2026

CULTURE MINISTER Patrick O’Donovan launched the latest taxpayer crutch for the nation’s voracious television producers, saying: “This new tax credit is about backing... Read more »

WEXFORD OPERA’S BIG PRODUCTION

December 11, 2025

WITH THE curtain having come down on the 2025 Wexford Festival Opera (WFO), the focus now turns to next year’s 75th anniversary shindig,... Read more »

SHOW ME THE MONEY!

November 27, 2025

A RECENT investigation by the Guardian in the UK looked into the finer details of the workings of the tax credit scheme for... Read more »

MAURA McGRATH MAKES WAY

October 30, 2025

AS FANS of Goldhawk are aware, there has been plenty going on at the National Concert Hall (NCH) in recent months and now... Read more »

O’DONOVAN LOSES THE PLOT

October 16, 2025

FANS OF Goldhawk are well aware of a grant awarded to Listowel Writers’ Week (LWW) – now chaired by former Fianna Fáil senator... Read more »

MOLI’S SCARY PLOT

October 2, 2025

ALMOST 20 months on from when it first emerged that the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) on St Stephen’s Green was in financial... Read more »

MOLING’S MISSION

September 18, 2025

AS REVEALED by Goldhawk (see The Phoenix 25/7/25), culture minister Patrick O’Donovan has installed his department’s favourite troubleshooter, Moling Ryan, as the interim... Read more »

DIVERSITY DRAMA

September 4, 2025

THERE MUST have been a little discomfort at the Irish Times when hacks covered the latest adventures of scribbler John Boyne, whose presence... Read more »

BANISHING BANVILLE

August 21, 2025

POOR OLD Jawn Banville must be wondering what he did wrong when he found himself out in the cold earlier this month after... Read more »

VONA GROARKE’S GOOD NEWS

August 7, 2025

GOLDHAWK RECENTLY reported on the appointment of Éilís Ní Dhuibhne as the new Laureate for Irish Fiction – an Arts Council-fronted gig dished... Read more »

NÍ DHUIBHNE’S NEW PLOT

July 24, 2025

LOTS OF coverage for the new Laureate for Irish Fiction, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, whose appointment balances the male/female ratio as expected, with Anne... Read more »

O’DONOVAN’S ‘ACTING DIRECTOR’

July 10, 2025

THE LATEST Oireachtas outing featuring the antics at the Arts Council took place before Alan Kelly’s art and media committee earlier this month... Read more »

GRABBING GRAHAM DWYER

June 26, 2025

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see that the headline-grabbing new documentary on the Graham Dwyer murder of Elaine O’Hara was produced not by an... Read more »

IMMA’S HALF DOZEN

June 12, 2025

ARTS MINISTER Patrick O’Donovan is seeking applications from worthies looking to fill no less than six upcoming vacancies on the Ali Curran-chaired board... Read more »

THE BIG GIG

May 29, 2025

AN ADVERT for one of the more prestigious jobs in the arts sector has just been posted by the National Concert Hall (NCH)... Read more »

PATRICK O’DONOVAN’S HEADACHE

May 15, 2025

ANYONE SURPRISED at Donald Trump’s threat of a 100% tariff on films produced in “foreign lands” must not have been paying attention. But... Read more »

DENIS DESMOND’S MUSIC NOTES

May 1, 2025

THERE HAS been yet more fine-tuning of the corporate set up at LN-Gaiety Holdings, the utterly dominant concert and music venue joint venture... Read more »

LANDMARK’S LOLLY

April 17, 2025

WHILE ARTS and culture minister Patrick O’Donovan has been playing Scrooge with the TV producers over the streaming levy, he has also been... Read more »