Arts Council boss to be grilled on failed €6.7m IT project before bowing out of role

Arts Council boss to be grilled on failed €6.7m IT project before bowing out of role

Maureen Kennelly will tell the committee that the Arts Council has commenced legal proceedings against two contractors.

O'Donovan blocks new term for director of Arts Council

Arts Minister Patrick O’Donovan has been accused of ‘flexing his muscles’ when it comes to the Arts Council after he blocked the reappointment of its director. Sources in the State body have expressed their disappointment over the minister’s decision not to grant Maureen Kennelly a second term as chief of the council, describing his interference as ‘unusual’. They alleged that Mr O’Donovan’s decision was fuelled by a controversial IT system upgr…