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LOUISE O’NEILL’S OUTSIDER

September 10, 2020
SPARE A thought for Ian Bailey, who is well used to finding himself in the media spotlight. Now, on top of never-ending legal battles,... Read more »

AUDIT’S PREDICTABLE PLOT

September 10, 2020
THE OVERDUE ‘audit’ of the independent film and TV drama production sector by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) was released last month, but it... Read more »

VALUING LOUIS LE BROCQUY

August 27, 2020
NEXT MONTH’S auction by Sotheby’s of 19 works owned by Mick Smurfit should shine some light on the current perceived worth of a painting... Read more »

ALAN DUGGAN’S LOBBYING

August 27, 2020
IT WAS only a matter of months after James Hickey retired from the chief executive role at Screen Ireland that he landed some new... Read more »

MOOLAH FOR SI BOARD MEMBERS

August 13, 2020
THE RELEASE date for Screen Ireland’s annual report is always unheralded and slow to arrive. While Goldhawk is regularly told to wait for the... Read more »

THE GREAT BOOK’S BENEFICIARIES

August 13, 2020
WITH RTÉ preparing to broadcast a documentary next week on The Great Book of Ireland (GBI), maybe some light will be thrown on the... Read more »

IFTA’S VIRTUAL PLOT

July 30, 2020
FOLLOWING THE announcement of Áine Moriarty’s IFTA nominees for 2020 and, er, 2019 (sort of), there was the inevitable clamour about the omission of... Read more »

TAXING TIMES IN CARLOW

July 30, 2020
FANS of Goldhawk will not be surprised to hear that Carlow County Council has had to bail out the VISUAL arts centre in Carlow.... Read more »

DÉSIRÉE FINNEGAN’S NEW FUND

July 16, 2020
LOOKING AT the lists of recent handouts from Annie Doona’s Screen Ireland (SI), it is unclear if need has been taken into consideration when... Read more »

THE PEOPLE’S THEATRE

July 16, 2020
WITH THEATRES particularly badly affected by Covid-19 and suggestions that people are in no hurry to return to the enclosed venues, Goldhawk wonders what... Read more »

ROSE McHUGH’S GOOD NEWS

July 2, 2020
ON HER way out the door of the Department of Culture, Josepha Madigan dished out €102,000 to the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork. It... Read more »

SARAH DILLON’S WRAPPED HANDOUTS

July 2, 2020
FANS OF GOLDHAWK will be familiar with the workings of the Western Region Audiovisual Producer’s (Wrap) Fund, headed up by Sarah Dillon. It is... Read more »

BONO’S FILM STUDIO ROLE?

June 18, 2020
THE NEWS that James Morris and Alan Moloney’s proposed 48-acre film studio and ‘media park’ in west Dublin is to involve the son of... Read more »

RHA GALLERY’S ROADMAP

June 18, 2020
THE GOOD news is that the RHA Gallery re-opens in late July, although a max of 40 visitors an hour will be permitted, with... Read more »

JIGS AND REELS AND LEGAL FEES

June 4, 2020
A THIRD set of High Court proceedings has just been initiated in connection with a row between some high-profile Irish traditional music and dance... Read more »

SPINNING AT LISSADELL

June 4, 2020
WITH THE music festival season shot to bits, the only light at the end of the tunnel is the announcement by the owners of... Read more »

SKELETON CREW AT SCREEN IRELAND

June 4, 2020
THE BOARD of Screen Ireland (SI) is looking pretty depleted these days, with the terms of three board members having ended in March –... Read more »

MIRIAM ALLEN’S EDIT

May 21, 2020
IN THE wake of similar announcements from Galway 2020 and the Galway Arts Festival, Galway Film Fleadh (GFF) chief executive Miriam Allen announced earlier... Read more »

UPDATING THE HERITAGE COUNCIL

May 21, 2020
AS THE coalition negotiations drag on, more state boards are running out of time. One of these is the Heritage Council, where historian and... Read more »

EOIN COLFER’S COFFEE

May 7, 2020
BESTSELLING children’s fantasy fiction writer Eoin Colfer got a pat on the back recently from the Irish Mail on Sunday, which headlined a gushing... Read more »

ELAINE GERAGHTY’S SURVEY

May 7, 2020
THE PANDEMIC has put a stop to assorted film and TV productions and has shone a spotlight on the precarious nature of work in... Read more »

CATHAL GAFFNEY’S SIX SHOOTS

April 23, 2020
THE FILM and TV business is going through an existential Covid-19 downtime, but the public purse is always open, as evidenced by the latest... Read more »

JOSEPHA MADIGAN’S LEGACY

April 23, 2020
WHILE COMMENTATORS speculate on the make-up of any new cabinet, culture minister Josepha Madigan’s name is noticeable by its absence. She has only herself... Read more »

TRISTAN’S GOOD NEWS

April 9, 2020
JUST AS the nation’s film and TV producers are facing into the Covid-19 production abyss, Michael O’Keefe’s Broadcasting Authority of Ireland has announced the... Read more »

JOSEPHA MADIGAN’S PR INITIATIVE

April 9, 2020
JOSEPHA MADIGAN suffered some Covid-19 political pain when her PR initiative to provide funding for artists and pat herself on the back was met... Read more »

SHARON ALSTON’S CHARITY GIG

March 26, 2020
AS WE keep being reminded, the coronavirus does not recognise borders. Nor, indeed, does it recognise pop stars. Along with sporting events and the... Read more »

MAUREEN KENNELLY’S SUCCESSOR

March 26, 2020
GIVEN THE solid financial standing of Poetry Ireland (PI) and its high place in the pecking order as far as the Arts Council is... Read more »

MAUREEN KENNELLY’S TOP JOB

March 12, 2020
THE APPOINTMENT of Maureen Kennelly as director of the Arts Council – to succeed Orlaith McBride, who was in situ for nine years –... Read more »

CULTURE NIGHT RECORDS

March 12, 2020
LAST WEEK, the Irish Heart Foundation kicked up over the alleged failure of certain public officials to keep records of meetings with lobbyists (Ibec)... Read more »

PICKING UP THAT BAI BOUNTY

March 12, 2020
WHILE THE spotlight turns regularly on the winners in Michael O’Keefe’s generous Sound & Vision funding rounds at the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI),... Read more »

IN PRAISE OF MARIAN KEYES

February 27, 2020
WHILE GOLDHAWK has noted John Banville’s effective marketing of his latest novel, another writer who has been the subject of a huge amount of... Read more »

JOHN BANVILLE’S BLACK BOOK

February 27, 2020
HAVING ADMIRED the wily John Banville’s hype offensive for his latest buke, The Secret Guests, Goldhawk could not resist giving it the once over... Read more »

FUNDING ‘JIHAD JANE’

February 27, 2020
MACDARA KELLEHER and Morgan Bushe have become major players in the film business in recent years with their tie-in to Troy Studios, where Kelleher’s... Read more »

JOHN BANVILLE’S ROYAL FLUSH

February 13, 2020
THE ANNOUNCEMENT of a new annual Irish literary award last week came as a pleasant surprise to Irish writers, who have had limited opportunities... Read more »

SCREEN IRELAND AUDITIONS

February 13, 2020
THE CLOSING date has now passed for those interested in joining the board of the National Museum of Ireland (see The Phoenix, 31/1/20) and... Read more »

ÁINE MORIARTY’S FIVE-YEAR PLAN

February 13, 2020
FANS OF Goldhawk were previously alerted to the disappearance from the 2019 red-carpet calendar of the annual IFTA awards ceremony (see The Phoenix, 31/5/19).... Read more »