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Sat 06 Jun 2009Stop press . . . good news from a bank
ARTSCAPE: THE PARIS-based Irish artists Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly, pictured above, were probably the front runners to win the AIB prize this week, as they have a great track record and many other awards behind them, so it was not a huge surprise that they scooped the prestigious award.
It was announced at the AIB bank centre to a group of about 50 people who breached (by arrangement) the inner sanctum of the beleagured bank’s Ballsbridge headquarters for the award ceremony. It must be a relief for chief executive Eugene Sheehy to have some good news for a change. And even more heartening to have him strongly reaffirm the bank’s ongoing commitment to both its art collection and the AIB prize itself.
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