Latest media coverage

The Arts Council and Theatre Forum made a presentation to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Arts, Sport, Tourism, Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs yesterday. It was a stellar line up that included artists Sebastian Barry, Brendan Gleeson, Garry Hynes and Colum McCann, as well as Pat Moylan and Mary Cloake from the Arts Council from the Arts Council and Fiach Mac Conghail from the Abbey.

Media coverage from presentation to Oireachtas Joint Committee on Arts, Sport, Tourism, Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

• Six One News (14 October)
• Morning Ireland 1 (15 October): Conor Hunt report
• Morning Ireland 2 (15 October): Colum McCann (speaker at the Committee) has been shortlisted for US National Book Awards
• Irish Independent (15 October): Artists hope pen is mightier than economic slash-hook, Lise Hand
• Irish Times (15 October): Artists lobby politicians to maintain funding, Deirdre Falvey
• Irish Examiner (15 October): Gleeson: Film plans will collapse if Bord Snip implemented, Conor Ryan
• Artscape, Irish Times (17 October): Visions of McCarthyland, Deirdre Falvey
• RTE Radio One, Marion Finucane (18 October): Fiach Mac Conghail on panel and specific conversation about NCFA at 01:21:34
• Pat Moylan, Chair of the Arts Council speech to the Committe

Other recent media coverage:

• Irish Times 15 October: Guy Barriscale “Backstage and Going Broke”
• Drogheda Independent 7 October: Backing for Arts Campaign
• Galway City Tribune 2 October: Arts cuts would be a ‘lethal blow’ to Galway businesses (note no online version sourced)
• Galway Independent 7 October: The business of art (note no online version sourced)
• Longford Leader 9 October: Campaign for the Arts in Longford
• Mayo News 12 October: Mayo arts advocates take on Bord Snip
• Sligo Champion October 14: Arts community unites to warn against cuts in funding (note no online version sourced)
• Sligo Post October 14: Emmy winner hits out at arts cuts (note no online version sourced)
• Sligo Weekender October 13: Sligo’s artists and artisans protest against cutbacks
• Sligo Today October 8: Sligo Arts and Culture fight proposed cuts