Pat Moylan

The strange figures and empty chairs of the Arts Council

The Arts Council insists that transparency is important, but it’s sadly lacking in its funding decisions

Heading for a cultural desert

Pat Moylan: ‘If we cut the arts, we’re really cutting ourselves’

Having finished as chair of the Arts Council after five years, Moylan answers criticism of the funding process, says the council has no role to play in Limerick and looks forward to producing theatre again

New award honouring Irish writers worth €150,000

Laureate for Irish Fiction will get sum over three-year term

Funeral of actor Susan Fitzgerald told of her serenity facing death

Priest recalls an ‘extraordinary’ person

President pays tribute to ’immense’ contribution of Heaney

US vice president Biden says he was ’one of the finest Irish poets to ever live’

Milo O’Shea interred in simple ceremony attended by family and close friends

‘Milo never had such a low turnout’ quips Michael Colgan during tributes at the Gate Theatre afterwards

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