Kevin Rafter

How is the Government honouring its commitment to spend more on the arts?

Three years after vowing to double Arts spending by 2024, the Government is already a year behind

Arts Council pleased but artists’ body devastated by the increase in funding

Cultural institutions need board members, and it can be rewarding (just not financially)

The issue of artists’ livelihood dominated a 250-strong gathering at Dublin Castle

Mapping the history of that most Irish of newspaper genres – the Sunday paper

Jill Abramson will serve two-year term at university’s school of communications

Decision by Denis O’Brien’s Communicorp in response to O’Toole column under spotlight

Kevin Rafter, Eileen Maher and Clodagh O’Donnell to join BAI committees

There is no substitute for experience, and many are simply not being given a fair opportunity to acquire it

Irish journalists report a very strong commitment to codes of professional ethics and high levels of education

Desire for gender equality is useless without ‘pretty bloody-minded’ implementation

Coalition should have continued present system if it did not want to cede control

Independent Broadcasters of Ireland urges Government to spread licence money

Three-year plan for Civil Service includes new performance management system

Expert group’s recommendation for performance management to be accepted

Underperfomers should be dismissed, service needs to be more responsive, Watt says

Independent TD says negativity and cynicism propagated by some politicians must be challenged

Proposals include establishing new external board to hold senior civil servants to account

Several studies have criticised media outlets for their reporting of the boom years. But financial journalism could be said to have had a good recession

Opinion: The No campaign has failed to address the core problem, that for 75 years the Seanad has been a costly failure

TD accuses Yes campaign of using misleading and superficial claims to support Seanad abolition