Behind the Scenes Archives

Behind the Scenes

RTÉ’S PLOT TWIST

May 16, 2024

THE 162-page RTÉ report from the “expert advisory committee” on contractor fees, human resources etc is most interesting, not for its focus on... Read more »

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NATIONAL LIBRARY’S NEW EDITIONS

May 16, 2024

A WEEK after Goldhawk asked why the filling of three vacancies at the National Library of Ireland (NLI) was still overdue, arts and... Read more »

CATHERINE MARTIN’S LATEST VACANCY

May 2, 2024

THE RETICENCE of arts and culture minister Catherine Martin when it comes to filling vacancies on the boards of the national cultural institutions... Read more »

LYRA V BEYONCÉ

April 18, 2024

IT HAS been hard to avoid Irish singer Laura McNamara (aka Lyra) in recent weeks as the hype machine cranks up around her... Read more »

LARA HICKEY’S CLOSE-UP

April 18, 2024

THE FILM and TV business has long been one where ‘who you know’ features high on the lists of credits, even more so... Read more »

EN POINTE!

April 4, 2024

THE DECISION by Anne Maher’s Ballet Ireland (BI) to withdraw a piece choreographed by Israeli Ohad Naharin from its Bold Moves programme raised... Read more »

SMOCK ALLEY’S BAD REVIEW

April 4, 2024
WITH DUBLIN City Council (DCC) preparing to take over Smock Alley Theatre (SAT) in Temple Bar, the board of the linked Gaiety School of... Read more »

IRISH OSCAR PLOT SPOILERS

March 21, 2024

Despite all the hoopla around the successful Oscar run by Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer and Element Pictures’ Poor Things, the delirious hacks have... Read more »

VICKI NOTARO’S FANS

March 21, 2024

NO SURPRISE to see well-connected former VIP Publishing boss Vicki Notaro attracting some high-level plugs for her upcoming debut novel, Reality Check. These... Read more »

MICK HEANEY ON SARAH MCINERNEY

March 7, 2024

FANS OF Goldhawk will be aware of Irish Times radio reviewer Mick Heaney’s drooling admiration of Drivetime presenter Sarah McInerney (see The Phoenix... Read more »

IN PRAISE OF SIÚN

March 7, 2024

THERE HAS been an awful lot of praise heaped on recently resigned RTÉ chairwoman Siún Ní Raghallaigh, with TV and movie producers lobby... Read more »

HOLY MOLI!

February 22, 2024

PERHAPS PREDICTABLY, a fledgling Irish cultural entity finds itself in a financial mess. This time it is the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI),... Read more »

RAMSAY’S IRISH RECIPE

February 8, 2024

IT HAS probably escaped most viewers’ attention that the latest TV venture of Gordon Ramsay, Next Level Chef – Series 3, launched this... Read more »

A WAIT AT THE MUSEUM

February 8, 2024

A MERE six months after the closing date on the advert seeking new board members for the National Museum of Ireland (NMI), arts... Read more »

AUDREY WHITTY’S GOOD NEWS

January 25, 2024

HAVING JUST handed over €60,000 to the Crawford Art Gallery towards the acquisition at auction of Harry Clarke’s The Colloquy of Monos and... Read more »

REALITY CHECK

January 25, 2024

THE LONG campaign to drag the Irish taxpayer into subsidising “unscripted” productions (ie reality TV shows) through the Section 481 tax break looks... Read more »

MORGAN’S PLOT TWIST

January 11, 2024

FANS OF Goldhawk have been kept up to date with the travails of John Arkins’s Irish Film Workers Association (IFWA) over the years.... Read more »

BUSY OLIVER SEARS

December 14, 2023

ART DEALER and Holocaust awareness advocate Oliver Sears tends to generate plenty of media interest and most recently was afforded a lengthy outing... Read more »

BOX OFFICE BLUES

December 14, 2023

AROUND 40 ‘Irish’ movies, some of them re-releases or hold-overs from 2022, were released in cinemas in Ireland over the course of 2023.... Read more »

CATHERINE MARTIN’S EXPERTS

November 30, 2023

THE CLOSING date for applications to join the expert advisory committee of Culture Ireland (CI) has now passed, although it is unclear just... Read more »

TAX TREATS

November 30, 2023

A PERUSAL of the list of beneficiaries of the Section 481 tax credit in the first nine months of 2023 reveals that 82... Read more »

SISTERS CASHING IN

November 15, 2023

AS USUAL, it was rather late in the day (and following a couple of queries by Goldhawk) when Désirée Finnegan’s Screen Ireland (SI)... Read more »

REVIEWING PAUL MURRAY

November 15, 2023

ON NOVEMBER 26 assorted scribblers will find out if they have landed the literary sales steroid that is the Booker Prize. Two Irish... Read more »

When Ryan Tubridy finally acknowledged his part in the payments scandal that rocked the national broadcaster it was too late – the public, his colleagues and politicians had already lost faith and his career in RTÉ was over.

ANNUAL 2023 – AIRWAVES – 2023: RTÉ’S END GAME?

November 15, 2023
AFTER YEARS of dire warnings about incompetent management, waste and dubious work practices, the scandal surrounding secret payments to Ryan Tubridy finally laid bare... Read more »

ANNUAL 2023: BEHIND THE SCENES – BONO, BANSHEES AND BRENDAN BEHAN

November 15, 2023

ONCE AGAIN, Bono, Larry Mullen Jr, Adam Clayton and The Edge were the subjemuch of the entertainment media’s focus in 2023, notably thanks... Read more »

ORLAITH McBRIDE’S ARCHIVES

November 2, 2023

INTERESTING TO see that arts and culture minister Catherine Martin found time last week to drop into the €2.4m pa National Archives of... Read more »

BIENNALE BOO-BOO

November 2, 2023

IT LOOKS like the Arts Council and Culture Ireland got a little ahead of themselves earlier this year when they advertised for expressions... Read more »

McGRATH’S MOVIE PLOT

October 18, 2023

THE NEWS that the first budget script of finance minister Michael McGrath contained extra moolah for the country’s movie moguls was greeted with... Read more »

NEW CAST FOR THEATRE FESTIVAL

October 18, 2023

WITH THE Dublin Theatre Festival (DTF) having wound down this week, there will be a couple of new faces added to the cast,... Read more »

MOOLAH IN MONAGHAN

October 5, 2023

THE NEWS that the Tyrone Guthrie Centre for artists, which is located in Annaghmakerrig, is to benefit to the tune of €1.5m for... Read more »

McGRATH’S EXPANDING BOARD

September 21, 2023

THIS WEEK was the closing date for expressions of interest in joining the board of the Parnell Square-headquartered Irish Heritage Trust (IHT). According... Read more »

ON THE FRINGE

September 21, 2023

AS THE Dublin Fringe Festival draws to a close there has been little sign of the outfit known as the Trans Writers Union... Read more »

MARTIN DYAR’S LISTOWEL GIG

September 7, 2023

THIS WEEK sees the new director of Listowel Writers’ Week (LWW) festival unveiled and it is clear that, unlike his predecessor, Martin Dyar... Read more »

CAROLINE DOWNEY’S LABEL

September 7, 2023

AS HOZIER’S new album, Unreal Unearth, continues to generate oodles of hype, both here and abroad, it is interesting to see that the... Read more »

CAROLINE DOWNEY’S SHOOTING STAR

August 24, 2023

INTERESTING TO see a new constitution filed for the unlimited holding company Ronmall, where promoters extraordinaire Denis Desmond and Caroline Downey stash most... Read more »

FILM BOARD’S DIVERSE CAST

August 10, 2023

TO THE surprise of absolutely no one, arts minister Catherine Martin has yet to fill two seats on the Screen Ireland (SI) board,... Read more »