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ANGELINE’S HIDDEN ASSETS

June 17, 2021
THE PROPOSED new TV series, Hidden Assets, first turned up on Goldhawk’s radar when Screen Ireland dished out €300,000 to production company Saffron Moon... Read more »

OVERDUE AT THE LIBRARY

June 17, 2021
WHEN BUSY arts minister Catherine Martin found time last week to officially open the latest (photographic) exhibition at the National Library of Ireland (NLI),... Read more »

LIQUIDATING THE STRYPES

June 3, 2021
THE STRYPES, like a succession of Irish bands, were once (not so long ago) the next big thing but announced their break-up in 2018.... Read more »

SCREEN IRELAND MOOLAH

June 3, 2021
SCREEN IRELAND has announced its funding decision for the first quarter of 2021. The loans are the first to be published since the recently... Read more »

NEW FACE FOR NCAD

May 20, 2021
SIMON HARRIS has advertised for expressions of interest from candidates interested in serving on the board of the beleaguered National College of Art and... Read more »

MARY KELLY’S PRODUCTION

May 20, 2021
CHANGE IS in the air at Wexford Festival Opera (see p18) but the good news is that the finances have started to look healthier,... Read more »

CATHERINE MARTIN’S COLLECTION

May 6, 2021
THE ARTS minister Catherine Martin has added a “significant body of artworks” to the national collection, having allocated €1m to IMMA and the Crawford... Read more »

ARTS COUNCIL TIGHTENS UP

May 6, 2021
THE CHARITIES Regulatory Authority (CRA) has just published a notice relating to a move by the Arts Council to combine nine trust funds where... Read more »

GERRY O’BRIEN’S SEQUEL

April 22, 2021
IT IS safe to say that the ‘Irish Film Agreement’ inked by Irish Actors Equity and Screen Producers Ireland (SPI) won’t be winning script... Read more »

OPEN CALL WINNERS

April 22, 2021
WHILE ARTS minister Catherine Martin has been throwing millions of euro at the arts during the pandemic, the Arts Council has also been getting... Read more »

ANNIE’S SUCCESSOR?

April 8, 2021
ALTHOUGH THE board of Screen Ireland (SI) lost three directors a year ago when their terms ended, no replacement cast members were found. Now... Read more »

GENDER GAP

April 8, 2021
NOT MUCH attention has been paid to the latest report churned out by the Merrion Square Mafia, this time concerning the handouts to artists... Read more »

CATHERINE MARTIN’S ADDRESS

March 25, 2021
IT WAS interesting to see arts minister Catherine Martin taking time out earlier this month to “address female representation and equality in Ireland’s arts,... Read more »

ED GUINEY’S ‘FESTIVAL’

March 25, 2021
WHILE ALL eyes where on Cheltenham, another festival of sorts was under way in the digital sphere, featuring free Irish films being offered “with... Read more »

MORE MOVIE MOOLAH

March 11, 2021
WITH THE running time for the Screen Ireland (SI) board appointments process approaching epic length, the film and TV biz’s favourite cash dispenser has... Read more »

HUGH LANE’S NEW FACE

March 11, 2021
AT LONG last change is in the air at the Dublin City Council controlled Hugh Lane Gallery. While the board is getting some new... Read more »

SUPER SARAH’S REVIEWS

February 25, 2021
READERS OF Mick Heaney’s radio reviews in the Irish Times were treated to another instalment in his long running editorial infatuation with presenter Sarah... Read more »

CATHERINE MARTIN’S EMPTY SEATS

February 25, 2021
WHILE THE Green Party continues to be engaged in its off-screen rumblings, it is to be hoped that culture minister Catherine Martin’s attention is... Read more »

DIFFERENT ELEMENTS

February 11, 2021
WHEN PRODUCER Ed Guiney of Element Pictures appeared by Zoom on RTÉ News last week to gush about the Golden Globe nominations for the... Read more »

COMMISSION CALL

February 11, 2021
A LITTLE late in the day culture minister Catherine Martin has got around to seeking to fill the half dozen vacancies in the Irish... Read more »

EVA KENNY’S APPOINTMENT

January 28, 2021
CULTURE MINISTER Catherine Martin was busy in the run-up to Christmas, filling some vacancies on the board of IMMA, although there is only one... Read more »

THE TAXMAN GIVETH

January 28, 2021
WITH THE taxman having just published details of fourth quarter 2020 beneficiaries of the generous film and TV tax incentive Goldhawk wondered about the... Read more »

MAUREEN KENNELLY’S COLLECTION

January 14, 2021
THE BAD times have resulted in some good times at the Arts Council after years of penny pinching from successive governments, with sackloads of... Read more »

NANCY HARRIS’S WINNER

January 14, 2021
JUST BEFORE Christmas, the hard-working elves at Michael O’Keeffe’s Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) signed off on the latest round of ‘Sound & Vision’... Read more »

NIAMH SMYTH’S CAST

December 16, 2020
LAST WEEK Niamh Smyth’s Oireachtas media committee spent a couple of hours discussing the impact of Covid-19 on the film and TV production industry... Read more »

ANN CLARKE’S TEST RESULTS

December 16, 2020
CONGRATULATIONS TO Anne Clarke, whose Landmark Productions outfit is co-producing the first theatrical ‘test’ live performances at the Abbey Theatre. Culture minister Catherine Martin... Read more »

GLORIOUS HANDOUTS

December 3, 2020
THE FILM and TV funding agency Screen Ireland (SI), still rolling with three board vacancies since the start of the year, has announced its... Read more »

EOIN MURPHY’S NEW HAT

December 3, 2020
NEXT WEEK, Sunday World showbiz hack Eoin Murphy will join education minister Norma Foley’s team of advisors. Film director Lenny Abrahamson may be glad... Read more »

Sinéad O’Connor is preparing to publish her memoir next year and is “looking forward to dishing the sexual dirt on everyone I’ve ever slept with”. JK Rowling (below) has been the target of cancel culture after she was labelled a transphobe.

ANNUAL 2020 – ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: 2020: CANCEL CULTURE, COVID AND CONTROVERSY

November 19, 2020
THIS WAS a year not much like any other given that the arts were savaged by the pandemic. Nevertheless, it was business as usual... Read more »

WILD MOUNTAIN JAM

November 19, 2020
THE NATIONAL public broadcaster as well as the rest of the media (social and otherwise) got their knickers in a twist over Emily Blunt... Read more »

LEO’S NEXT CHAIR

November 19, 2020
ONE OF the next appointments to be made by Leo Varadkar in his role as enterprise minister is the chair of the Design and... Read more »

PAT MOLLOY’S SUCCESSOR

November 5, 2020
STILL NO sign of the 2018 accounts at Dublin’s Hugh Lane, where there is finally to be a change at the top, with ex-banker... Read more »

FUNDING LILY-ROSE DEPP

November 5, 2020
THERE’S LITTLE doubt Irish film and television producers are having a bad year, but at least they (and their international cast members) continue to... Read more »

JOHN GORMLEY’S NEXT ROLE?

October 22, 2020
AT LONG last, culture minister Catherine Martin has advertised the board vacancies left unfilled since March at Desiree Finnegan’s Screen Ireland (SI). Indeed, Martin... Read more »

RAAP RAPPED

October 22, 2020
THERE WAS an interesting little ruling published last week linked to the bitter dispute between Recorded Artists Actors Performers (RAAP) and Phonographic Performance (Ireland),... Read more »

NUALA O’CONNOR’S NEW GIG

October 8, 2020
THE APPOINTMENT of Nuala O’Connor to the government’s Future of Media Commission may draw some attention to one of the more successful production partnerships... Read more »