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Desiree Finnegan Ireland Film Tax Credit

DÉSIRÉE FINNEGAN’S DIVIDEND

January 26, 2023
ON JANUARY 20 Désirée Finnegan’s Screen Ireland (SI) finally published its 108-page report on the Section 481 film tax credit, entitled: The Cultural Dividend... Read more »

Kerlin Gallery Creative Ireland Section 481 Christine O’Donovan RTÉ Storyland NMI Board Vacancies IASCA Ossie Kilkenny RTÉ Original Programmes

KERLIN’S SMILING DIRECTORS

January 26, 2023
ART-LOVING moneybags Paddy McKillen has been busy fighting legal actions in recent times courtesy of his increasingly fraught relationship with the Qatari royal Al... Read more »

DÉSIRÉE’S IN-TRAY

January 12, 2023
THERE IS no sign of a plot twist at Screen Ireland (SI) when it comes to publishing its annual reports. Successive head honchos, including... Read more »

CATHERINE MARTIN’S UNJUST TRANSITION

January 12, 2023
WITH THE Arts Council planning to significantly expand its scale, maybe one of the new hires could keep an eye on the activities of... Read more »

Madeleine O'Sullivan Listowel Writers’ Week

PLOT THICKENS AT LISTOWEL WRITERS’ WEEK

December 15, 2022
GOLDHAWK HAS been struck by coverage of the Arts Council-inspired restructuring of the Listowel Writers’ Week (LWW) organisation, including the disbanding of the long-standing... Read more »

CARRY ON CARLOW

December 1, 2022
HAVING LOST out on some money-spinners last year due to the pandemic, the cash-strapped Visual arts centre in Carlow is hoping nothing derails this... Read more »

BOYD BARRETT’S CAMEO ROLE

December 1, 2022
WATCHING THE Oireachtas select committee on finance and public expenditure go through the nuts and bolts of the recently published Finance Bill would be... Read more »

JOHN BRADY’S PLOT TWIST

November 17, 2022
AS FANS of Goldhawk are aware, there has been a relentless rise in the number of film and TV studio projects at various stages... Read more »

ANNUAL 2022: BEHIND THE SCENES – RED SCARE IN THE ARTS WORLD

November 17, 2022
THE ARTS delivered their usual share of spats and colourful performances but the big winner was surely the minister responsible for signing cheques and... Read more »

CHRISTINE O’DONOVAN’S CHAIR

November 15, 2022
BARRING A disaster from the Oireachtas committee on higher education, high-powered legal eagle Christine O’Donovan will be confirmed as the chairwoman of the National... Read more »

THE TALKING SHOP II

November 2, 2022
WATCHING THE Oireachtas budget oversight committee at work on the Section 481 film industry tax credit last month, it looked a lot like a... Read more »

RTE’S DIVERSITY

November 2, 2022
CONGRATULATIONS TO the three writers of the 25-minute dramas being broadcast on RTÉ 2 under the ‘Storyland’ banner. Certainly, the selection represents a vote... Read more »

The Vanishing Triangle AnneMarie Naughton

VIRGIN’S ‘VANISHING TRIANGLE’

October 19, 2022
GIVEN THE popularity of the ‘true crime’ genre, including efforts “based on a true story”, it’s perhaps not surprising that the disappearances of some... Read more »

CATHERINE MARTIN’S MUSEUM PIECES

October 19, 2022
AFTER 15 months, arts minister Catherine Martin has finally got around to filling the vacancies on the board of the National Museum of Ireland... Read more »

PRAXIS AND THE VENICE BIENNALE

October 6, 2022
WHEN THE Arts Union of Ireland – also known as Praxis – announced itself on the scene last year (see The Phoenix 9/4/21), it... Read more »

NCAD’S CHAIR

September 22, 2022
THIS WEEK sees the election of a new chair of the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), following the recent vacancy on the... Read more »

SONGWRITERS’ SWAN SONG

September 22, 2022
THE FINAL creditors’ meeting has been held by the liquidator of the Irish Association of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (IASCA), which was set up... Read more »

MARTIN’S TIMELY GRANT

September 8, 2022
IT TURNS out that the arts department was particularly eager to support Brian Merriman’s International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival (IDGTF) after the Arts Council... Read more »

DEE FORBES’S PLEADINGS

September 8, 2022
THE INTRO to RTÉ’s autumn season launch is familiar to perusers of press releases from assorted Irish film festivals, Screen Ireland, IFTA and film... Read more »

IMMA’S PLURALITY PITCH

August 25, 2022
IT SHOULDN’T be too much longer before arts minister Catherine Martin finally gets around to filling the four vacancies on the IMMA board, three... Read more »

OSSIE KILKENNY’S CAMEO

August 25, 2022
You don’t hear too much from Ossie Kilkenny these days as he has taken quite a step back from the limelight since his time... Read more »

ROSE McHUGH’S THREE SEATS

August 11, 2022
LAST WEEK was the closing date for receipt of expressions of interest in (unremunerated) vacancies on the Rose McHugh-chaired board of the Crawford Art... Read more »

Mullingar Film Studio RTÉ Self-Employment

CASTING GROUCH

August 11, 2022
INTERESTED PARTIES are running the abacus over the spat between RTÉ and its non-staff contractors on the one hand and Revenue and the Department... Read more »

OVERDUE AT THE LIBRARY

July 28, 2022
A LITTLE late in the day, the board of the National Library of Ireland (NLI), chaired by former Eoin McVey, has advertised for a... Read more »

PAUL CHESNEY’S FILM STUDIO

July 28, 2022
YET ANOTHER proposed film studio project made it into the news this month, this one in Mullingar. How many studio schemes can the market... Read more »

EOIN COLFER’S PARTNER

July 14, 2022
INTERESTING TO see that super successful novelist Eoin Colfer has set up a company with theatre producer Breda Cashe. Not surprisingly, the venture isn’t... Read more »

NEW BLOOD AT NMI

July 14, 2022
WITH the closing date having passed for applicants to the board of the National Museum of Ireland (NMI), it will be interesting to see... Read more »

WAITING AT IMMA

June 30, 2022
BRIAN MACCRAITH was highly critical of the delay by the minister for media etc, etc, Catherine Martin, in publishing the Future of Media Commission... Read more »

BRIAN MERRIMAN’S GOOD NEWS

June 30, 2022
CONTRATULATIONS ARE in order for Brian Merriman and his crew at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival (IDGTF), who clearly have been receiving rather... Read more »

STANLEY’S DIVIDENDS

June 16, 2022
THIS WEEKEND sees the return of the Body & Soul festival at Ballinlough Castle, Co Westmeath, which, according to the Irish Times, provides “the... Read more »

DÉSIRÉE FINNEGAN’S DELAYED RELEASE

June 16, 2022
FANS OF Goldhawk will recall that Désirée Finnegan’s Screen Ireland had quietly commissioned a €75,000 ‘inaugural’ report into the cultural impact of the Section... Read more »

BRIAN MERRIMAN’S BAD REVIEW

June 2, 2022
THE REJECTION by the Arts Council appeals panel of a funding application from Brian Merriman’s International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival (IDGTF) probably came as... Read more »

CATHERINE MARTIN’S LA STORY

June 2, 2022
PRESUMABLY Leo Varadkar et al were envious of Catherine Martin’s recent LA junket, the purpose of which would have been to reassure the moguls... Read more »

NETFLIX’S LOBBYING

May 19, 2022
IT IS something of a paradox that, under legislation intended to bolster local and European culture against globalised mass media, the Irish taxpayer shells... Read more »

ANDREW NOONAN’S NEW MENU

May 19, 2022
AMONG THE number of festivals lined up for a presumably pandemic-free 2022 is the music/food mishmash that is the Big Grill Festival, now an... Read more »

CECELIA’S REVIEWS

May 5, 2022
IT HAS been a busy few weeks for scribbler Cecelia Ahern, whose short story collection, Roar, has been adapted for Apple TV+. Not everybody... Read more »