Arts Council

Prof Niamh Brennan will lead the review, while a parallel review will be conducted of the Department of Arts and Culture itself

Fidget Feet has received more than €1.15 million from the Arts Council since 2022

IT firms have extensive work with government departments

Differences emerge between council and department over timing of warning about botched IT project

Extent of losses from failed IT project only disclosed last summer, statement from Catherine Martin suggests

Loss from abandoned €7m computer project could have a knock-on effect on cultural organisations

New grant system was part of original scope of upgrade

The current cycle of stories about the spending of State money leads to concerns about systemic failings

Unclear when the then minister for arts Catherine Martin was informed of scale of issue

Three firms who received bulk of €5.3m spent on scrapped IT system named as Codec, Ergo and Expleo

Ministers criticise public spending and governance breaches and ‘massive waste of money’

Ministers criticised handling of project by Arts Council and Department of Arts

Arts Council says project delivered was ‘not fit for purpose’

A new IT framework will have seemed a good idea to many in the arts, but much went wrong in its implementation

Long-delayed 2023 annual report said to detail spending on overhaul of system for dealing with funding applications

‘Something will turn up’ is a fragile belief to sustain over financially challenging decades – and nothing ruins creativity like anxiety

Almost €60 million spread across nationwide arts bodies

The outgoing Green Party TD delivered on her predecessors’ promises to address Ireland’s woeful shortfall when it comes to supporting cultural activity

The Afro-Brazilian performer and teacher staged one of the hits of this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival. It’s part of a cultural journey

Plus: Keith Duffy in a falling out over knees, Enda Kenny artfully backs a winner, and it turns out RTÉ and Sinn Féin can feel at home with each other after all

The multidisciplinary Dublin artist is part of the exhibition Skin/Deep: Perspectives on the Body, at Photo Museum Ireland and has designed three new T-shirts for Medical Aid for Palestinians

Plus: no sign of the next laureate for fiction; the less-than-diverse membership of Aosdána; and Niall Blaney’s poor attendance record

Arts Council hopes people will engage more in local projects after experiencing some of 1,700 free events nationwide later this month

Oliver Dowling, through his work with the Arts Council and his own gallery, was a leading figure in the Irish visual arts world

Thirty titles from some of Ireland’s most beloved writers will be distributed, with some authors reading excerpts for prisoners

A few big names can fill big venues, but most comedians scrape by. Now, at last, what they do is set to be recognised as worthy of Arts Council funding

Some countries build theatres, others give young people money to spend on the arts. What works best?

Department of Arts says Arts Council has primary governance responsibility for the Abbey Theatre

Governance report still not released by national theatre, while chairwoman’s term is set to end in weeks

The decision comes in the wake of a long-running but as yet unresolved series of controversies over finances, culture and governance

The events that have unfolded over the past five years at the national theatre raise obvious parallels with the RTÉ debacle

Sinn Féin’s Aengus Ó Snodaigh says ‘comedians are recognised and have the support of the relevant arts councils’ in other countries

Paddy Keenan and Mickey Dunne travelling by horse-drawn wagon to Donegal

The numbers suggest the scheme is having a real impact on the ability of artists to devote themselves to their work

The closure of Corcadorca theatre company, in 2022, left a hole that the city’s remaining theatre community is battling to fill

Kerry piper Leonard Barry’s new album, Littoral, features a host of well-known names, including Kevin Burke of The Bothy Band

Plus: Jack Crowley’s financial conversion, architect Tom de Paor’s Wicklow woes, Siún Ní Raghallaigh’s Galway house sale, and Dublin jarveys say neigh to Harry Crosbie

Ó Briain held many roles – he worked at RTÉ, in politics and led the Arts Council – and was ‘totally committed to public service’

Collaborative venture to be led by Liz Roche Company will involve Belfast-based Maiden Voyage Dance and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick

From cinema and theatre to television, folk music and literature, Ireland is enjoying unprecedented creative boom