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Mon 02 Feb 2009Drowned out by the bigger players
As with theatre, it is the smaller companies in the opera and classical music world that are suffering most from Arts Council cuts – and future sponsorship by business is in doubt too, writes Michael Dervan
SUBSISTENCE HAS LONG been the name of the game for the arts in Ireland, including the Arts Council and a high proportion of the organisations it supports. The Government’s cutting of the Arts Council’s 2009 grant-in-aid was therefore bound to have some peculiar consequences.
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