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2020: The year when home entertainment and media filled the void
- Media & Marketing
- December 22, 2020, 05:15
Even by 2020 standards, Life Worth Living felt like a gloomy title for the November report of the Arts and Culture Recovery Taskforce. It was a refere(...)

‘Test live performances’ to take place in National Concert Hall and Abbey
- Health
- December 13, 2020, 15:00
A series of “test live performances” will begin next weekend in the National Concert Hall and the Abbey Theatre, the Minister for Arts and Culture Cat(...)

Zoom singalongs helping older people overcome pandemic isolation
- Health & Family
- December 9, 2020, 06:01
The ability of people to adapt their activities to an online format has been one of the most striking phenomena of the Covid-19 pandemic. And while mo(...)

Eighteen Irish panto productions for all the family to watch this season
- Stage
- December 3, 2020, 10:00
Panto season is a bit different this year, with productions either moving online or, in a few innovative cases, switching to a drive-in format. All th(...)

Nick Cave: BBC’s censoring ‘destroys’ Fairytale of New York
- Music
- December 1, 2020, 09:27
Nick Cave says the BBC’s decision to censor Fairytale of New York “destroys” the song. In a post for his Red Hand Files newsletter, the Australian si(...)

‘Sentiment alone’ will not rescue Irish media, warns NUJ
- Media & Marketing
- November 11, 2020, 17:29
The Government has offered “precious little clarity” on how it will tackle the financial situation at RTÉ and made “no real recognition” of the “tsuna(...)

RTÉ to seek 70 voluntary redundancies as ‘large costs’ beckon in 2021
- Media & Marketing
- October 26, 2020, 05:00
RTÉ will seek 60-70 redundancies when it reopens its voluntary exit scheme in January, director-general Dee Forbes has told staff. The broadcaster wil(...)

Budget 2021: Musicians welcome €50m for live entertainment industry
- Economy
- October 13, 2020, 21:29
Singer-songwriter Eleanor McEvoy has said she expects musicians and crew to benefit directly from the €50 million allocated to the live music sector i(...)

TG4 receives biggest funding boost since 2008
- Economy
- October 13, 2020, 15:48
Public service broadcaster TG4 said it was “extremely grateful” for the additional €3.5 million it has received in Budget 2021, its director-general A(...)

Karlin Lillington: Ireland spent months discussing pubs but not arts venues
- Technology
- October 1, 2020, 05:00
Experiencing the performing arts in Ireland, for now, is mostly online. That isn’t the case in many other countries, which worked to find ways in this(...)