Cosa sta succedendo con tutti gli scandali delle arti irlandesi in questo momento?
https://www.rte.ie/culture/2025/0226/1499064-whats-going-on-with-all-the-irish-arts-scandals-right-now/
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Cosa sta succedendo con tutti gli scandali delle arti irlandesi in questo momento?
https://www.rte.ie/culture/2025/0226/1499064-whats-going-on-with-all-the-irish-arts-scandals-right-now/
di Correct_Energy_9499
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I don’t know, but it doesn’t paint a good picture.
Plot twist : They were all phoneys looking for a paycheck!
They’ll all be out of jobs soon and spiral into depression…and out of all the pain they’ll start creating great art. It was their plan all along!
It seems to be a case of a relatively small Department that got a budget bump and struggled to administer it effectively.
Well if RTE is anything to go by they completely ran rings around former Minister Catherine Martin or she was just another absolutely incompetent Minister.
It’s just latest lid to be lifted.
I work in the HSE and there’s so much in that can worms ill be surprised if there’s ever an all out reveal a la RTE last year.
Our equivalent in my network of the flip flops was that our “health and wellbeing” fund for the year was wasted on a 6 week, once per week attendance to… “laughing yoga.”
Not backed by research and chosen by our “health and wellbeing manager” over providing discounted gym membership for the year. Im a physio and honestly couldnt believe this was what was being pushed. The total fund was 4 figures.
I’ve been trying to figure out locally if the laughter yoga teacher is related to the manager, or what connection there is.
Edit: spelling
The government is signalling massive cuts is what happening so they suddenly are very concerned about things they already knew but pretended they didn’t.
The budget increase and programs like BIA have been the only reason we have retained artists and actually seen some improvement in the last few years. The last governments arts funding was so successful we have had multiple different countries representatives coming and visiting to research so they can implement these same things in their countries too.
The fact that this is going to be cracked down on is scary. It’s going to make Ireland a lot less appealing a place to visit or live or spend time in and we are going to see the last bits of our arts that have been hanging on gone.
Are they going to deal with the actual issues ? No of course not. Are they going to close down galleries, studios, museums, and events by cutting their funding? Yes.
FF is just seeing what the Americans are doing and trying it for themselves. They have no shame this government at all. It’s an absolute free for all and we aren’t going to see the things they fuck up back for years if ever.
Let be honest here, the government are liberal with their funding and have very poor oversight. There must be huge corruption in most government bodies.
It’s a symptom of money just being handed out and then “poof”. Nobody is accountable for anything. We’re top heavy.
As much as I absolutely despise what’s going on in the US. The concept of an auditing body coming in and just going after the money is very appealing.
Perhaps they are good at painting a picture but useless at managing money, might have something to with their tax free environment the live in.
If they had basic income for artists they could get rid of the arts council. I imagine it would be much cheaper anyway.
It’s amazing how careless you can be with money when you can just shake down the taxpayer for a bit more whenever you like.
I’m going to make a wild guess that the IT system was the good old case that the head of the project was someone who was completely unqualified and inexperienced with IT or User Design.
Programmers and designers keept sending it the right solution, it would suggest wild changes just from vibes alone without any idea what it was asking, pushing the project months. Repeat multiple times. The 5th delayed deadline comes about and they don’t have anything to show because they keept running circles, so project was cancelled.
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy?
We call it riding the gravy traaaaaaaaain
7 million… for a system that does grant payments??? What could they possibly spent that much on, that doesn’t sound like it’d have unusual requirements, companies do payments all the time.
I think one big story breaks (IT scandal) which then causes other journalists to investigate the sector and find other things. You could see similar things happen last year with the OPW, first the security station then the expensive wall etc.
The way the media works is that once a story gets traction they’ll dig for others, even if they’re older. Some of these stories were reported years ago but they’re the story of the moment now.
And with all this money they couldn’t even produce ONE Irish movie that wasn’t a downer. Is it good ‘Art’ because you leave more depressed than you were before? Is there such a criteria in those circles?
>A scanner that requires a lead lined room
When I heard about that the other day in passing I’d assumed it was to scan people to check if they were trying to rob stuff.
Visions of an irradiated public lol
As someone who works within the Arts, all these scandals are making me feel really uneasy!
So worried that funding will be cut next year and I’ll be saying bye-bye to my job…
A mixture between people with axes to grind who think, with the current DOGE-ish environment, that now is a great time to reveal shit.
We have our own DOGE – the department of public expenditure was established in like 2010 as part of austerity and an bord snip nua.
I think it’s decision-makers and management over consecutive governments who were completely out of their depth with certain issues and projects. Not just the elected ministers etc., it’s not difficult to find civil service managers/heads in any department (not just arts) who are just not properly fit or qualified for their role now.