Cork Midsummer Festival has launched an open call for the inaugural Jane Anne Rothwell Award after one of its most successful editions of the Festival. The Jane Anne Rothwell Award will see a prize of €5,000 awarded annually to an emerging artist — either from Cork, or based in Cork — working in any discipline, who identifies as female.…
On 4 June last, Mr Seán Canney TD, Minister of State for Community Development, Natural Resources and Digital Development, published the Dormant Accounts Action Plan 2019 providing an additional €6.5 million to benefit disadvantaged groups. This included the provision of €200,000 to support eight LGBTI Community Organisations with payments being made from Minister Michael Ring’s Department of…
It’s good to see that US Ambassador Designate Ed Crawford has arrived in Ireland and Deputy Ambassador Reece Smyth signs over Chief of Mission duties to him. He will officially present his credentials to President Higgins today, Monday, July 1 at Áras an Uachtaráin.