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Sat 12 Dec 2008Funding for arts organisations will fall 8.2% next year
FUNDING FOR Irish arts organisations will be down next year by an average of 8.2 per cent, with theatre, dance and literature coming in for the brunt of the cuts.
State investment, via the Arts Council, in Irish theatre (aside from the Abbey) will be cut by 8.37 per cent next year (from €8.6 million to €7.9 million). Dance overall is down 11 per cent and literature 9.5 per cent, with most of this reduction coming from the complete cut of funding to the Irish Writers' Centre.
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