Behind the Scenes Archives

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 »

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O’DONOVAN’S ORDERS

April 17, 2025

THE LEGACY of the RTÉ Tubs scandal is now clearer, with arts and media minister Patrick O’Donovan introducing some policy swerves that will... Read more »

NIALL DOYLE’S NEXT GIG?

April 3, 2025

AS GOLDHAWK revealed (see The Phoenix 7/3/25), Niall Doyle, the long-time head of music and opera at the Arts Council, is one of... Read more »

Susan Bergin Marlowe Mullingar Film Studio RTÉ Self-Employment

MORE ARTS COUNCIL CONSULTANTS

April 3, 2025

AS THE Arts Council prepares for an eventual outing before the Public Accounts Committee, it is business as usual on Merrion Square. A... Read more »

LOTTIE RYAN’S RADIO SILENCE

March 20, 2025

RADIO STATION 2FM unveiled yet another new schedule (yawn) to a largely indifferent public and yet again poor old Lottie Ryan has been... Read more »

ART ATTACK

March 20, 2025

COVERAGE OF the arts took a bit of a hit this week, with the Business Post editor announcing the dumping of the Arts... Read more »

ACTING THE MAGGOT

March 6, 2025

AS ALWAYS, the Oscars garnered plenty of media attention for the stars and producers but on this side of the Atlantic, at least,... Read more »

SCANNER? WHAT SCANNER?

March 6, 2025

GOLDHAWK IS struck by the way the annual reports of the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) – like those of the Arts Council... Read more »

SCREEN IRELAND’S FEMALE LEADS

February 20, 2025

THERE MAY have been some head scratching among movie makers earlier this month when the Sunday Times Culture mag ran a comment piece... Read more »

CAITRÍONA CROWE’S MEMO

February 20, 2025

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p6), Goldhawk reports on the strong level of support (30%) in the near 900 submissions made to the... Read more »

VIRGIN MEDIA’S ‘VIDEO NASTY’

February 6, 2025

THE CRITICAL reaction to Virgin Media’s TV’s accomplished comedy/horror drama series set in the 1980s, Video Nasty, will have been toasted in Screen... Read more »

SLOWLY DOES IT IN KILKENNY

February 6, 2025

IT HAS taken quite a while for Design & Crafts Council Ireland (DCCI) in Kilkenny to get around to advertising for its new... Read more »

ARCHIVES COUNCIL IN STORAGE

January 23, 2025

JUST OVER a year on from a leak, which started on the top floor of the National Archives premises on Bishop Street in... Read more »

GATHERING FEEDBACK

January 23, 2025

LAST MONTH Jessica Drum’s Screen Guilds of Ireland (SGI) – an association of technicians’ guilds in film and TV – announced it would... Read more »

BIG BUDGET PÁLÁS FLOP

January 9, 2025

THE LATEST plot twist in the tortuous tale of Galway’s Pálás arthouse cinema (controlled offshore since 2020) is the decision of Ed Guiney... Read more »

SEÁN O’KEEFFE’S PLOT SPOILER

December 12, 2024

INTERESTING TO see that the website for the small Irish publisher established by Seán O’Keeffe, Liberties Press, is still up and running, “seeking... Read more »

CILLIAN MURPHY’S MOOLAH

November 28, 2024

SUPERSTAR Cillian Murphy continues to take on new roles and his latest is as the saviour of the Phoenix cinema in Dingle, which... Read more »

EDITING MOLI

November 28, 2024

NINE MONTHS after it emerged that the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) on St Stephen’s Green was in financial disarray, the required cuts... Read more »

ARTS COUNCIL ARRIVALS

November 14, 2024

ON OCTOBER 29, arts minister Catherine Martin announced the appointment of two new members to the board of the Arts Council (AC), although... Read more »

Bambie Thug opted not to boycott the Eurovision contest, which also featured Israel, while Taylor Swift (below) brought her much-hyped Eras tour to Dublin to the delight of fans and hacks.

ANNUAL 2024: GENOCIDE, ROBOTS AND TAYLOR SWIFT

November 14, 2024

THIS YEAR the cultural arena was dominated by two rather different personalities – Taylor Swift and Benjamin Netanyahu – both of whom managed... Read more »

FIDGET FEET’S SHORTAGES

October 31, 2024

LAST MONTH saw the launch at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in Limerick of Micheál Ó Súilleabháin: A Life in... Read more »

MARY MCCARTHY’S ADDITIONS

October 31, 2024

CONGRATULATIONS TO Mary McCarthy et al at the Crawford Gallery in Cork, who have just landed some acquisitions to bolster the national collection.... Read more »

CRAWFORD GALLERY’S NEW LOOK

October 17, 2024

ARTS MINISTER Catherine Martin is seeking to appoint a director to the board of the Crawford Art Gallery (CAG) in Cork but the... Read more »

BAD BEHAVIOUR

October 17, 2024

THOSE HOPING for some real nitty-gritty in Susan Liddy and Fergal Rhatigan’s Screen Ireland-funded report for Women In Film & Television Ireland (WFT)... Read more »

HERITAGE COUNCIL’S CHEAP SEATS

October 3, 2024

HOUSING AND heritage minister Darragh O’Brien has sought expressions of interest in two vacancies on the Kilkenny-headquartered Heritage Council as a result of... Read more »

PAY DAY!

October 3, 2024

THOSE UNFAMILIAR with Ruth Treacy and Julianne Forde’s Tailored Films will be interested to know that “the company’s vision is to be renowned... Read more »

FESTIVAL CASTING CALL

September 19, 2024

AFTER 13 years at the helm, Willie White is stepping down as artistic director and CEO of Dublin Theatre Festival (DTF). Would-be applicants... Read more »

A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE

September 19, 2024

DÉSIRÉE FINNEGAN’S Screen Ireland (SI) has just launched yet another funding initiative, Perspectives, which is intended to provide “a window into experiences and... Read more »

MICHAEL WALL’S BAD REVIEW

September 5, 2024

ONE ASPECT of Crowe-Ireland’s review of the corporate governance farce at the Abbey Theatre that has not got its fair share of attention... Read more »

HICKEY’S PROSPECTS

September 5, 2024

GOLDHAWK PREVIOUSLY reported on the career trajectories of siblings Jack and Lara Hickey (see The Phoenix 19/4/24) and it looks like we are... Read more »

CATHERINE MARTIN’S ‘NUANCE’

August 22, 2024

GOOD TO see arts minister Catherine Martin finally getting around to advertising the vacancies on the board of the Irish Museum of Modern... Read more »

PADDY LOU’S LOLLY

August 22, 2024

EARLIER this month (see The Phoenix 9/8/24), when no 2024 quarterly funding decisions had appeared on the Screen Ireland (SI) website, a curious... Read more »

PETER AIKEN’S NEW GIG

August 8, 2024

THE ADVERTISING blitz right up to the kick-off of the All Together Now festival in the grounds of Henry de la Poer Beresford’s... Read more »

AFTER SUSAN BERGIN

August 8, 2024

TEN WEEKS after Screen Ireland (SI) chairwoman Susan Bergin resigned three years into her four-year term “due to other commitments”, there has been... Read more »

INO’S HIGH NOTES

July 25, 2024

OPERA FANS are excited by the news that Irish National Opera (INO), which is chaired by former top legal eagle Jennifer Caldwell, is... Read more »

RALPHIE RETURNS

July 25, 2024

GOLDHAWK WASN’T too surprised to see his favourite film producer, Ralph Christians, turn up in the trade press ahead of Miriam Allen’s Galway... Read more »