Sir, – The letter published last week (December 5th) regarding Arts Council funding cuts to Irish publishers made my blood boil.
How come our publishers are giving out about the lack of support they receive from the Arts Council (and the taxpayer) when they get most of their books printed abroad?
They do very little to support our indigenous print industry.
Any future Arts Council support publishers get should be linked to their commitment to use local printers.
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The taxes paid by the local printers would go straight into our national coffers and could then be used to fund organisations such as the Arts Council.
It is simple but the publishers don’t see it that way. – Yours, etc,
JOHN O’LOUGHLIN,
Ranelagh,
Dublin 6.