
ORLAITH MCBRIDE’S NEW JOB
November 14, 2019
CONGRATULATIONS to outgoing Arts Council director Orlaith McBride, who has landed the I100,000 pa job of director of the National Archives of Ireland (NAI).... Read more »
ORLAITH MCBRIDE’S NEW JOB
November 14, 2019
CONGRATULATIONS to outgoing Arts Council director Orlaith McBride, who has landed the I100,000 pa job of director of the National Archives of Ireland (NAI).... Read more »
SUDDEN EXIT AT ARTS COUNCIL
November 14, 2019
IT LOOKS like we will have to wait a while longer to have a full Arts Council following the sudden resignation of one of... Read more »
SINÉAD O’CONNOR’S TAX BILL
October 31, 2019
IT HAS been hard to avoid Sinéad O’Connor (aka Shuhada’ Davitt) recently and her media outings have successfully generated huge interest in her return... Read more »
ALL ABOARD AT ARTS COUNCIL
October 31, 2019
THE LONG-overdue appointment of new Arts Council directors is to be welcomed. The incoming trio includes Claudine McMahon, Vodafone Ireland’s head of, er, talent,... Read more »
JOHN ARKINS IN THE SPOTLIGHT
October 31, 2019
HALLOWEEN MAY not be the most auspicious date on which to close submissions for the audit by the Work Relations Commission (WRC) of the... Read more »
LEO’S HOLLYWOOD LUVVIETHON
October 16, 2019
WITH LAST month’s coast-to-coast luvviethon in the US – which saw Leo Varadkar hobnobbing with Jimmy Fallon and NBC/Universal in New York and then... Read more »
LABHRÁS Ó MURCHÚ’S NARROW ESCAPE
October 16, 2019
ALTHOUGH MINISTER for Culture Josepha Madigan was happy to boast after the Budget of a €5m hike in funding to €80m for the Arts... Read more »
TAXING MATTERS AT VISUAL IN CARLOW
October 16, 2019
WHAT ON earth is going on at VISUAL, the multi-million euro contemporary arts centre in Carlow? The board has lost eight directors and there... Read more »
BROWN BAG FIGURES
October 3, 2019
CONGRATULATIONS to Brown Bag studios founder Cathal Gaffney, who is in the middle of a purple patch. Figures just filed by a company called... Read more »
THE ABBEY’S CASTING CHALLENGE
October 3, 2019
STILL NO sign of a new board member at the Abbey Theatre, where there is a vacancy for someone who knows how to write... Read more »
GOOD TIMES AT THE GATE
September 19, 2019
THERE HAS been a cast change at the Abbey where its head of producing, Sarah Lynch, has decided to exit stage left after barely... Read more »
RUTH MCGOWAN’S SPONSOR
September 19, 2019
WHILE THE Dublin Theatre Festival is yet to kick off, Ruth McGowan’s Dublin Fringe Festival is just winding up its 25th hooley. She will... Read more »
JOHN CRONIN’S NEW ROLE
September 19, 2019
THERE IS a new cast member at the Dublin Theatre Festival (which kicks off next week) in the form of high-flying legal eagle John... Read more »
JOSEPHA’S FAMOUS FIVE
September 5, 2019
LAST WEEK, culture minister Josepha Madigan announced the first €20,000-a-head winners of the Markievicz Awards – the minister’s new bursary scheme to commemorate the... Read more »
BREXIT’S NO-DEAL HORROR PLOT
September 5, 2019
THE LIKELY ‘no-deal’ Brexit scenario is a horror plot for the Irish film and TV industry, since a high proportion of the players depend... Read more »
ARTS COUNCIL VACANCIES
September 5, 2019
MINISTER FOR Culture Josepha Madigan is finally to get around to filling those empty Arts Council seats, given that the closing date for applications... Read more »
EUGENE DOWNES’S LOW-HANGING FRUIT
August 22, 2019
WITH THE 2019 Kilkenny Arts Festival (KAF) having just finished, it was the first outing for the new director, Olga Barry. Her predecessor, Eugene... Read more »
ADDING UP AT KILKENNY ARTS FESTIVAL
August 22, 2019
THE 2017 loss at the Kilkenny Arts Festival (KAF) led to a number of steps being taken to bring the festival back into the... Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »