This afternoon.
Government buildings, Dublin 2
Josepha Madigan, Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht officially announcing five new Cultural Ambassadors under the Government’s Global Ireland 2025 program.
They are, top from left; architect Shelley McNamara, actress Ruth Negga, fiddler Martin Hayes, Mrs Madigan and architect Yvonne Farrell.
Earlier: Herself
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She was also handed a copy of this. https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/stage/abbey-theatre-uproar-300-actors-and-directors-complain-to-minister-1.3750135
The minister should be concerned with the issue of double funding the Abbey as a result of coproducing if nothing else.
Interesting read thanks.
they all must have had a ‘good husband’ behind them, right Josepha?
She announced herself as a cultural ambassador?
The correct list is Martin Hayes, Ruth Negga, Paul Muldoon, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara.
Ah, thanks.
#GenderBalance
Triggered again?
Hurry up, someone is needed to say mass in Mount Merrion.
“Her Excellency” – surely Mrs Robinson? Or Marian Finucane?
Couldn’t happen without the hubby.
Another Avril Doyle.
I don’t know much about trade but Martin Hayes is a really beautiful fiddle player, silky smooth melodies
He’s a National treasure.
Negga’s come a long way from shaking it with the queens in Out On The Liffey on a Saturday morning eh? Genuinely, a really nice decent woman, go you.
For real..?
Yup.
If Ruth Negga had been born here since the racist 2004 referendum would she still qualify as a cultural ambassador? Or is she an Irish citizen now or a Brit bluepassporter? Does it matter?
Our best cultural ambassador is still Michael D IMO.
What happened to the Alan Mcagee comment..?
What has the link ‘Herself’ – Mary Robinson got to do with this article?