Slick production tells US audience about the best of Ireland. ‘What about it?’ asks one viewer

The Taoiseach prefers strategic communications to communicating a strategy

Project Ireland 2040 campaign ‘breaks Civil Service ban’ on political work

The controversial unit has paid out €160,000 on advertising since its creation last year

IAPI chief executive succeeds John Concannon as leader of government arts scheme

Miriam Lord: Micheál Martin’s ‘fake outrage’ gets a bad review from drama critic Varadkar

Spending promises for arts fail to materialise in budget

Taoiseach defends €5 million cost of controversial ‘spin’ unit saying it will be ‘cost neutral’

Opposition parties allege Department of Taoiseach body will spread propaganda

Brendan Howlin described unit as ‘vanity propaganda project’ to promote Taoiseach’s image

Focus on communication may carry message Taoiseach is set to step up action in autumn

The Irish Times will be partnering with the festival on Saturday with a programme of talks and debates

Ireland needs to ‘go big or go home’ on film and television industry strategy, event hears

Initiative pitched as antidote to ‘sour pessimism’ of the present day

Strategy will place creative and cultural infrastructure ‘at the centre of Irish life’

Mourners at Galway Cathedral hear rowing was ‘passion’ of founding member of PDs’

Having ended Mayo’s recent dominance in the province, the Tribesmen still have something to prove

Major event to coincide with Allianz football finals at Croke Park on April 24th

1916: a miscellany

The 1916 centenary has become an extensive programme of almost 2,000 events, and even some early critics of the plans now accept that there’s ‘very positive stuff in there’