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KEEPING UP WITH JOHN McDONOUGH

August 8, 2019
INFORMATION is fairly thin on the ground at the Department of Culture when it comes to discussing the filling of the €100,000 pa approx... Read more »

JOHN HEDIGAN’S REPORT

August 8, 2019
WITH A new Director soon to head up the National Archives of Ireland, it is to be hoped that whoever does land the five-year... Read more »

O’DONOGHUE DELIVERS FIRST REPORT

July 25, 2019
THE CASH-STRAPPED Irish Heritage Trust (IHT) is advertising for a general manager at one of the handful of properties for which it is responsible... Read more »

NGI SEEKS NEW FACES

July 25, 2019
TWO SEATS on the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) board are up for grabs and would-be directors have until August 15 to apply for... Read more »

JOSEPHA MADIGAN’S UPLIFTING TIMES

July 25, 2019
JUST AS culture minister Josepha Madigan was emerging unscathed from swing-gate, a happy distraction arrived in the form of a nihil obstat from the... Read more »

EUGENE DOWNES’S NEW GIG

July 11, 2019
GOOD NEWS for fans of Irish cultural promotion abroad. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has finally offered the new position of... Read more »

SHARON ALSTON’S ANIMAL CHARITY

July 11, 2019
THE MUSIC festivals just keep coming and there is now fierce competition for music fans’ moolah. While Electric Picnic is still going strong, other... Read more »

BRENDAN HALLIGAN’S CHINESE FRIENDS

July 11, 2019
THE RECENT debut of the China Ireland International Film Festival – which took place at assorted Dublin cinemas as well as the UCD Confucius... Read more »

KEVIN RAFTER’S BAPTISM

June 27, 2019
LAST WEEK, the new chair of the Arts Council, Kevin Rafter, oversaw his first meeting of the board – a bruising two-day annual session... Read more »

SCREEN IRELAND’S DISTRIBUTORS

June 27, 2019
FINANCIAL hand-outs in Screen Ireland’s 2017 annual report will no doubt be of interest to incoming boss Désirée Finnegan, who replaces James Hickey. Distribution... Read more »

JENNIFER ZAMPARELLI’S REVIEW

June 12, 2019
THE NEW look 2FM has been attracting mixed reviews following its makeover, but one of the players, former Breakfast Republic co-presenter Jennifer Zamparelli, might... Read more »

KATIE HOLLY’S IMPRESSIVE CUT

June 12, 2019
IS THERE any state agency, aside Screen Ireland (chaired by Annie Doona), where some 8% of its ‘loan’ budget is mopped up by interests... Read more »

PETER AIKEN’S CHARGE

June 12, 2019
WITH THE musical festival season in full flow post-Slane, the focus now moves to other big shindigs such as Electric Picnic, Body and Soul,... Read more »

SHARON HORGAN’S LATEST PAYDAY

May 29, 2019
AS THE annual Cannes film junket (which featured a rare Irish success) came to a close on Sunday, it coincided with the arrival of... Read more »

PAT MOYLAN’S GRANT

May 29, 2019
CONGRATULATIONS to former Arts Council chair Pat Moylan who is again to tour her smash hit show, Angela’s Ashes The Musical, two years after... Read more »

SELINA CARTMELL’S OLD SHOWS

May 29, 2019
NEXT WEEK sees the return to the Gate of the hit show at the northside theatre, Roddy Doyle’s The Snapper. Given it had a... Read more »

RTÉ’S COMPLIANCE CONCERNS

May 16, 2019
FANS OF Irish daytime TV will be familiar with Today with Maura and Daithí, fronted by the dream team of Maura Derrane and Daithí... Read more »

SARAH DURCAN’S NOMINATION

May 16, 2019
GOLDHAWK was recently perusing the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Abbey Theatre and spied a regulation that could be interpreted to cause... Read more »

SARAH DILLON’S €2M FUND

May 16, 2019
FANS OF Goldhawk will be aware of the Western Region Audiovisual Producers (WRAP) Fund thanks to the nascent body’s first funding decision – €200,000... Read more »

KEVIN RAFTER’S CV

May 2, 2019
NOT TOO late in the day, Blueshirt Minister for Culture Josepha Madigan has appointed Kevin Rafter as Sheila Pratschke’s replacement in the chair of... Read more »

BILL SHIPSEY’S AMNESTY

May 2, 2019
GOOD NEWS for top barrister Bill Shipsey, whose Art for Amnesty (AfA) vehicle has been restored to the Companies Register, seven months after it... Read more »

NEIL JORDAN’S ‘LUDICROUS THRILLER’

May 2, 2019
NEIL JORDAN’S latest opus, Greta, opened to predictably ‘mixed’ reviews over the Easter weekend. The Financial Times’s opening salvo referred to the “ludicrous thriller”... Read more »

ABBEY BOARD’S SCRIPT

April 18, 2019
GOLDHAWK was interested to know how the Abbey board reacted to last year’s decision by the Arts Council to withhold a chunk of funding... Read more »

ADDING UP IN CORK

April 18, 2019
THE FALLOUT from the Michael Jackson documentary, Leaving Neverland, has affected a number of players here. One of those hit is the Cork Opera... Read more »

JOHN GLEESON’S NEW PLOT

April 18, 2019
THE ACCOUNTANCY profession has expanded significantly since the financial services sector was freed of its old-fashioned, fusty reservations. And with riskier business came the... Read more »

BARBARA DAWSON’S PLAN

April 4, 2019
IT’S SLOW ahead at the Hugh Lane Gallery, where director Barbara Dawson and her board are looking to implement a rather ambitious strategy. Big... Read more »

JOSEPHA’S BURSARIES MK II

April 4, 2019
THIS MONTH, applications close for the ‘Markievicz bursaries’ (mark II) and it promises to be pretty competitive given that the potential field has doubled... Read more »

THE TAXMAN COMETH… EVENTUALLY

April 4, 2019
BACK IN November 2014, Goldhawk put a few queries to Revenue as the country’s film luvvies were wishing farewell to the old ‘investor’ form... Read more »

NO QUEUE TO SUCCEED PRATSCHKE

March 21, 2019
CULTURE MINISTER Josepha Madigan’s search for the next chair of the Arts Council has begun (albeit a little late in the day), but suitable... Read more »

SLOWLY DOES AT IVEAGH HOUSE

March 21, 2019
DOCUMENTS released to Goldhawk reveal that the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade created the new post of cultural director as it was deemed... Read more »

MORE HAPPY ENDINGS FOR FILM PRODUCERS

March 21, 2019
BY HAPPY coincidence, figures have emerged from three separate film and television funding schemes that dispense public lolly to hard-pressed producers. The Sound and... Read more »

MARIAN KEYES’S MAKE-UP

March 7, 2019
THIS MONTH the long list for the first Comedy Women In Print (CWIP) prize is announced, with our own Marian Keyes in situ on... Read more »

BISI BLOCKED

March 7, 2019
SPARE A thought for playwright Bisi Adigun. The Supreme Court has found that the long-running litigation against his former legal eagles failed to reach... Read more »

CONOR BARRY’S ‘HOLE IN THE GROUND’

March 7, 2019
IRISH HORROR films and psychological thrillers have not fared well at the box office. Recent excursions The Lodgers and The Cellar Door hardly registered... Read more »

NEIL MURRAY’S TACTICS

February 21, 2019
ALMOST A month after the Abbey Theatre found itself the star of yet another offstage drama, courtesy of a critical letter signed by hundreds... Read more »

REGIME CHANGE ON MERRION SQUARE

February 21, 2019
WATCH OUT for an advert seeking to fill vacancies in the Arts Council. Given that the most important seat to be filled on Merrion... Read more »