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Sat 08 Aug 2009Film body makes case against bord snips
ARTSCAPE: THE IRISH FILM BOARD/Bord Scannán Na hÉireann has expressed “concern” at certain ominous recommendations in the report of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes (An Bord Snip Nua).
The controversial document, which has already sent worried tremors through many cultural bodies, calls for the abolition of the Irish Film Board, the winding-up of its investment funds and the transfer of its enterprise functions to Enterprise Ireland, writes Donald Clarke.
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