If you want a long career in government, don’t become minister for culture

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Hugh Linehan: The RTÉ tragicomedy has helped to show where the arts brief ranks in the political pecking order

Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media: Catherine Martin has a wider brief than any of her predecessors. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins

Whether true or not, these opinions are revealing of how the political class ranks the arts position in the pecking order of government. That mentality has been deeply damaging. Higgins was intent on promoting the idea of an interlinked audiovisual sector, with skills, facilities and creativity spanning the film and television industries in both public-service and independent productions.

 

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