Minister Martin reflects on a year of momentum across Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media sectors

Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill enacted Basic Income Scheme for 2000 Artists launched Record €166.6m Sports Capital Funding  €30 million continued additional funding to support tourism development and new attractions  Additional funding to ensure the vibrancy of our Gaeltacht communities in the digital age New dedicated Children’s Channel to be launched on TG4 Short-Term […]

New report highlights positive health and wellbeing impacts of arts and creativity in later life

Arts and creativity has an important role to play in health and wellbeing in later life and can help improve physical, psychological, and social health and wellbeing in older adults, a new report published by the Institute of Public Health (IPH) has found. The report, ‘Arts and Creativity in Later Life: Implications for Public Health […]

Bealtaine Festival brings arts celebrations to nursing homes this Friday

Nursing homes will be celebrating the creative talents of residents this coming Friday, 21st May, through the inaugural National Arts in Nursing Homes Day. The initiative is part of Age & Opportunity’s Bealtaine Festival and is taking place in partnership with Nursing Homes Ireland. Nursing home residents have been busy creating artworks to display as […]

VitalSigns 2017 Reports Access To Healthcare As Top Priority For Irish People

The Community Foundation for Ireland, one of Ireland’s leading philanthropic organisations, today published a report entitled Ireland’s VitalSigns 2017, that grades the satisfaction of life in Ireland. Almost 1,000 people living in Ireland completed the citizens’ survey, rating Access to Healthcare as most important out of the 115 key social indicators presented. The Community Foundation for Ireland […]

The Laoisarthouse presents Work from Middle

“Often perceived as a wearily protracted obstacle between Dublin and the west; in the days before motorways, a slow ticking off of dull little towns on a lot of flattish land drained by sluggish rivers; more lately a whizz between video-game verges, with nowhere in sight to pee.” Michael Viney, the Irish Times, Saturday May 18, […]

Make good, make better – forthcoming show by Saidhbhín Gibson at the Arthouse, Stradbally, Co Laois

Make good, make better is a forthcoming show by Saidhbhín Gibson at the Arthouse, Stradbally, Co Laois.  It will comprise of new work produced specifically for the exhibition. The work marries aspects of man’s domesticity with elements of the natural world. This has been executed through delicate mark-making in the drawings and intricate thread based […]

New Nenagh Arts Centre Brochure Available!

Our new April to June brochure contains a wide range of events catering to all ages and tastes and is available now online at www.nenagharts.com or from the Box Office, at the Town Hall in Banba Square Nenagh. Be sure not to miss ‘Pat Shortt’s’ new one man show in May, ‘Mary Coughlan’ in concert […]