Behind the Scenes Archives

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... 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... 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... Read more »

Susan Bergin Marlowe Mullingar Film Studio RTÉ Self-Employment

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... 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... 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... 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,... 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... 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... 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.... 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,... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... Read more »

SARAH DILLON’S €2M FUND

May 16, 2019

FANS OF Goldhawk will be aware of the Western Region Audiovisual Producers (WRAP) Fund thanks to the nascent body’s first funding decision –... Read more »

KEVIN RAFTER’S CV

May 2, 2019

NOT TOO late in the day, Blueshirt Minister for Culture Josepha Madigan has appointed Kevin Rafter as Sheila Pratschke’s replacement in the chair... Read more »

BILL SHIPSEY’S AMNESTY

May 2, 2019

GOOD NEWS for top barrister Bill Shipsey, whose Art for Amnesty (AfA) vehicle has been restored to the Companies Register, seven months after... Read more »

NEIL JORDAN’S ‘LUDICROUS THRILLER’

May 2, 2019

NEIL JORDAN’S latest opus, Greta, opened to predictably ‘mixed’ reviews over the Easter weekend. The Financial Times’s opening salvo referred to the “ludicrous... Read more »

ABBEY BOARD’S SCRIPT

April 18, 2019

GOLDHAWK was interested to know how the Abbey board reacted to last year’s decision by the Arts Council to withhold a chunk of... Read more »

ADDING UP IN CORK

April 18, 2019

THE FALLOUT from the Michael Jackson documentary, Leaving Neverland, has affected a number of players here. One of those hit is the Cork... Read more »

JOHN GLEESON’S NEW PLOT

April 18, 2019

THE ACCOUNTANCY profession has expanded significantly since the financial services sector was freed of its old-fashioned, fusty reservations. And with riskier business came... Read more »

BARBARA DAWSON’S PLAN

April 4, 2019

IT’S SLOW ahead at the Hugh Lane Gallery, where director Barbara Dawson and her board are looking to implement a rather ambitious strategy.... Read more »

JOSEPHA’S BURSARIES MK II

April 4, 2019

THIS MONTH, applications close for the ‘Markievicz bursaries’ (mark II) and it promises to be pretty competitive given that the potential field has... Read more »

THE TAXMAN COMETH… EVENTUALLY

April 4, 2019

BACK IN November 2014, Goldhawk put a few queries to Revenue as the country’s film luvvies were wishing farewell to the old ‘investor’... Read more »

NO QUEUE TO SUCCEED PRATSCHKE

March 21, 2019

CULTURE MINISTER Josepha Madigan’s search for the next chair of the Arts Council has begun (albeit a little late in the day), but... Read more »

SLOWLY DOES AT IVEAGH HOUSE

March 21, 2019

DOCUMENTS released to Goldhawk reveal that the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade created the new post of cultural director as it was... Read more »

MORE HAPPY ENDINGS FOR FILM PRODUCERS

March 21, 2019

BY HAPPY coincidence, figures have emerged from three separate film and television funding schemes that dispense public lolly to hard-pressed producers. The Sound... Read more »

MARIAN KEYES’S MAKE-UP

March 7, 2019

THIS MONTH the long list for the first Comedy Women In Print (CWIP) prize is announced, with our own Marian Keyes in situ... Read more »

BISI BLOCKED

March 7, 2019

SPARE A thought for playwright Bisi Adigun. The Supreme Court has found that the long-running litigation against his former legal eagles failed to... Read more »

CONOR BARRY’S ‘HOLE IN THE GROUND’

March 7, 2019

IRISH HORROR films and psychological thrillers have not fared well at the box office. Recent excursions The Lodgers and The Cellar Door hardly... Read more »

NEIL MURRAY’S TACTICS

February 21, 2019

ALMOST A month after the Abbey Theatre found itself the star of yet another offstage drama, courtesy of a critical letter signed by... Read more »

REGIME CHANGE ON MERRION SQUARE

February 21, 2019

WATCH OUT for an advert seeking to fill vacancies in the Arts Council. Given that the most important seat to be filled on... Read more »