Article Category: Behind the Scenes

The Other awards ceremony

February 25, 2016
THERE WAS a time when a relatively brief eruption of showbiz excess appeared in the... Read more »

BRIAN SPOLLEN’S MOMENTUM

February 25, 2016
INTERESTING TO see MCD promoter Brian Spollen setting up a company to run the... Read more »

LORETTA CLARKE’S SETTLEMENT

February 11, 2016
DÉTENTE has broken out in Mayo, where a rather interesting looking defamation action has... Read more »

HEATHER HUMPHREYS’ EMPTY SEATS

February 11, 2016
AS THE politicians go about trying to get re-elected, it’s business as usual on... Read more »

Evicting Paddy Dunning

February 11, 2016
‘MR TEMPLE BAR’ Paddy Dunning is used to being on the wrong end of... Read more »

TANIA BANOTTI TO CHAIR FILM BOARD?

February 11, 2016
WITH the general election campaign under way, time is running out for the Government... Read more »

OPEN AND CLOSED AT THE ARTS COUNCIL

January 28, 2016
WITH BUCKETLOADS of cash being dished out to various artistic and cultural projects under... Read more »

AND THE OSCAR GOES TO…

January 28, 2016
IN ANTICIPATION of the Irish run at the Oscars on February 28, there has... Read more »

NO DRAMA FOR IRISH TIMES AWARDS

January 28, 2016
SPARE A THOUGHT for the theatre industry luvvies who, just over a month from... Read more »

THE TOLLMANS’ TAX BILL

January 28, 2016
HAVING acquired Ashford Castle on 350 acres in Co Mayo back in 2013 for... Read more »

FUNDING THE ‘REBELLION’

January 14, 2016
THE AUDIENCE for RTÉ’s much-hyped 1916 drama Rebellion, which debuted last week, may not... Read more »

THE ABBEY’S LABOUR OF LOVE

January 14, 2016
THE BACKLASH against the Abbey Theatre’s testosterone-fuelled 1916 centenary programme – ‘Waking The Nation’... Read more »

WEXFORD OPERA’S STRAINED FINANCES

December 17, 2015
STILL NO sign of the overdue March 2015 accounts for Wexford Festival Trust, the... Read more »

RACHEL LYSAGHT’S FILM PLOT

December 17, 2015
THE ABBEY (off-stage) farce – starring Fiach Mac Conghail as the director who forgot... Read more »

DOMINIC STEVENS’S ‘EXTRAORDINARY HOUSES’

December 17, 2015
CURRENTLY running at the Mermaid arts centre in Bray, Co Wicklow is an exhibition... Read more »

BAZ ASHMAY’S INTER-NATIONAL EMMY

December 4, 2015
THERE WAS plenty of media coverage of a rare International Emmy awarded to a... Read more »

Committee Review Board Chair

December 4, 2015
ANOTHER new chairman of a national cultural institution, David Harvey, was also up before... Read more »

MICHAEL NOONAN’S CHRISTMAS MOVIE

December 4, 2015
IT IS odds-on that planning permission for a ‘change of use’ submitted by Limerick’s... Read more »

PAUL SHOVLIN’S NATIONAL LIBRARY GIG

December 4, 2015
THERE WAS very good news last month for the National Library of Ireland, when... Read more »

FIACH Mac CONGHAIL’S CURTAIN CALL

November 20, 2015
THE NATIONAL Theatre unintentionally kicked off a storm in an online teacup last week... Read more »

NO IRISH NEED APPLY

November 20, 2015
INTERESTING to see Michael Dervan in The Irish Times querying the lack of Irish... Read more »

Humphreys Picks Modern Chair

November 20, 2015
MINISTER for the Arts Heather Humphreys has turned to experienced troubleshooter David Harvey to... Read more »

STILL COUNTING CROWES

November 20, 2015
IT IS exactly a year since James Hickey’s Irish Film Board (IFB) announced its... Read more »

FUNDING PIXIE McKENNA’S ‘SEX CLINIC’

November 6, 2015
THE STRUGGLING UTV Ireland got a small shot in the arm from the Broadcasting... Read more »

Druid Theatre Company & Colm Toibin

November 6, 2015
THINGS HAVE been good on stage and off at Druid theatre company in recent... Read more »