Government’s culture strategy all spin and no substance
Spending promises for arts fail to materialise in budget
Then taoiseach Enda Kenny speaking in the National Gallery when he launched Creative Ireland, an ambitious plan for the arts, which sceptics regarded as just cosmetic fluff. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
The winter sun streamed through the tall windows of the refurbished Shaw Room in the National Gallery last December as theatre directors, film-makers, board members of museums and libraries, and other movers and shakers in the Irish arts world milled about, awaiting the arrival of Enda Kenny.