Behind the Scenes Archives

DESMOND’S HIGH NOTES

July 1, 2021

SINCE THE pandemic kicked in, arts minister Catherine Martin has been handing out grants like snuff at a wake and her latest announcement... Read more »

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IFTAS ‘GLITZ AND GLAM’

July 1, 2021

ÁINE MORIARTY’S annual IFTA gong show will be brought to you by Virgin Media One on July 4, and fronted by Gráinne Seoige... Read more »

ANGELINE’S HIDDEN ASSETS

June 17, 2021

THE PROPOSED new TV series, Hidden Assets, first turned up on Goldhawk’s radar when Screen Ireland dished out €300,000 to production company Saffron... Read more »

OVERDUE AT THE LIBRARY

June 17, 2021

WHEN BUSY arts minister Catherine Martin found time last week to officially open the latest (photographic) exhibition at the National Library of Ireland... Read more »

LIQUIDATING THE STRYPES

June 3, 2021

THE STRYPES, like a succession of Irish bands, were once (not so long ago) the next big thing but announced their break-up in... Read more »

SCREEN IRELAND MOOLAH

June 3, 2021

SCREEN IRELAND has announced its funding decision for the first quarter of 2021. The loans are the first to be published since the... Read more »

NEW FACE FOR NCAD

May 20, 2021

SIMON HARRIS has advertised for expressions of interest from candidates interested in serving on the board of the beleaguered National College of Art... Read more »

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MARY KELLY’S PRODUCTION

May 20, 2021

CHANGE IS in the air at Wexford Festival Opera (see p18) but the good news is that the finances have started to look... Read more »

NEW FACE FOR NCAD

May 20, 2021

SIMON HARRIS has advertised for expressions of interest from candidates interested in serving on the board of the beleaguered National College of Art... Read more »

MARY KELLY’S PRODUCTION

May 20, 2021

CHANGE IS in the air at Wexford Festival Opera (see p18) but the good news is that the finances have started to look... Read more »

CATHERINE MARTIN’S COLLECTION

May 6, 2021

THE ARTS minister Catherine Martin has added a “significant body of artworks” to the national collection, having allocated €1m to IMMA and the... Read more »

ARTS COUNCIL TIGHTENS UP

May 6, 2021

THE CHARITIES Regulatory Authority (CRA) has just published a notice relating to a move by the Arts Council to combine nine trust funds... Read more »

GERRY O’BRIEN’S SEQUEL

April 22, 2021

IT IS safe to say that the ‘Irish Film Agreement’ inked by Irish Actors Equity and Screen Producers Ireland (SPI) won’t be winning... Read more »

OPEN CALL WINNERS

April 22, 2021

WHILE ARTS minister Catherine Martin has been throwing millions of euro at the arts during the pandemic, the Arts Council has also been... Read more »

ANNIE’S SUCCESSOR?

April 8, 2021

ALTHOUGH THE board of Screen Ireland (SI) lost three directors a year ago when their terms ended, no replacement cast members were found.... Read more »

GENDER GAP

April 8, 2021

NOT MUCH attention has been paid to the latest report churned out by the Merrion Square Mafia, this time concerning the handouts to... Read more »

CATHERINE MARTIN’S ADDRESS

March 25, 2021

IT WAS interesting to see arts minister Catherine Martin taking time out earlier this month to “address female representation and equality in Ireland’s... Read more »

ED GUINEY’S ‘FESTIVAL’

March 25, 2021

WHILE ALL eyes where on Cheltenham, another festival of sorts was under way in the digital sphere, featuring free Irish films being offered... Read more »

MORE MOVIE MOOLAH

March 11, 2021

WITH THE running time for the Screen Ireland (SI) board appointments process approaching epic length, the film and TV biz’s favourite cash dispenser... Read more »

HUGH LANE’S NEW FACE

March 11, 2021

AT LONG last change is in the air at the Dublin City Council controlled Hugh Lane Gallery. While the board is getting some... Read more »

SUPER SARAH’S REVIEWS

February 25, 2021

READERS OF Mick Heaney’s radio reviews in the Irish Times were treated to another instalment in his long running editorial infatuation with presenter... Read more »

CATHERINE MARTIN’S EMPTY SEATS

February 25, 2021

WHILE THE Green Party continues to be engaged in its off-screen rumblings, it is to be hoped that culture minister Catherine Martin’s attention... Read more »

DIFFERENT ELEMENTS

February 11, 2021

WHEN PRODUCER Ed Guiney of Element Pictures appeared by Zoom on RTÉ News last week to gush about the Golden Globe nominations for... Read more »

COMMISSION CALL

February 11, 2021

A LITTLE late in the day culture minister Catherine Martin has got around to seeking to fill the half dozen vacancies in the... Read more »

EVA KENNY’S APPOINTMENT

January 28, 2021

CULTURE MINISTER Catherine Martin was busy in the run-up to Christmas, filling some vacancies on the board of IMMA, although there is only... Read more »

THE TAXMAN GIVETH

January 28, 2021

WITH THE taxman having just published details of fourth quarter 2020 beneficiaries of the generous film and TV tax incentive Goldhawk wondered about... Read more »

MAUREEN KENNELLY’S COLLECTION

January 14, 2021

THE BAD times have resulted in some good times at the Arts Council after years of penny pinching from successive governments, with sackloads... Read more »

NANCY HARRIS’S WINNER

January 14, 2021

JUST BEFORE Christmas, the hard-working elves at Michael O’Keeffe’s Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) signed off on the latest round of ‘Sound &... Read more »

NIAMH SMYTH’S CAST

December 16, 2020

LAST WEEK Niamh Smyth’s Oireachtas media committee spent a couple of hours discussing the impact of Covid-19 on the film and TV production... Read more »

ANN CLARKE’S TEST RESULTS

December 16, 2020

CONGRATULATIONS TO Anne Clarke, whose Landmark Productions outfit is co-producing the first theatrical ‘test’ live performances at the Abbey Theatre. Culture minister Catherine... Read more »

GLORIOUS HANDOUTS

December 3, 2020

THE FILM and TV funding agency Screen Ireland (SI), still rolling with three board vacancies since the start of the year, has announced... Read more »

EOIN MURPHY’S NEW HAT

December 3, 2020

NEXT WEEK, Sunday World showbiz hack Eoin Murphy will join education minister Norma Foley’s team of advisors. Film director Lenny Abrahamson may be... Read more »

Sinéad O’Connor is preparing to publish her memoir next year and is “looking forward to dishing the sexual dirt on everyone I’ve ever slept with”. JK Rowling (below) has been the target of cancel culture after she was labelled a transphobe.

ANNUAL 2020 – ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: 2020: CANCEL CULTURE, COVID AND CONTROVERSY

November 19, 2020

THIS WAS a year not much like any other given that the arts were savaged by the pandemic. Nevertheless, it was business as... Read more »

WILD MOUNTAIN JAM

November 19, 2020

THE NATIONAL public broadcaster as well as the rest of the media (social and otherwise) got their knickers in a twist over Emily... Read more »

LEO’S NEXT CHAIR

November 19, 2020

ONE OF the next appointments to be made by Leo Varadkar in his role as enterprise minister is the chair of the Design... Read more »

PAT MOLLOY’S SUCCESSOR

November 5, 2020

STILL NO sign of the 2018 accounts at Dublin’s Hugh Lane, where there is finally to be a change at the top, with... Read more »