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MSMN News After Galway 2020: what European Capitals of Culture still buy an Irish city Accessibility on Irish and European VOD: subtitles, sign, description, and the two clock… AI in Irish and European newsrooms: what Article 50 actually makes you disclose Irish podcasts as a European export: audio that travels when the schedule does not European hit versus Irish box office: what the till says that the festival does not Ireland’s co-production treaties: how a film becomes ‘national’ twice Independent Irish television: Sound & Vision, the 7 percent, and the schemes that actual… Forward look: Ireland’s European screen system after the 2026 policy cluster Irish public-service media versus the Nordic model: the licence that would not die The business of Irish media: licence fee, Exchequer top-up, and the streamer next door Cookies, consent and Irish editorial: what the banner is doing to the story Diaspora screens: how Irish film festivals abroad build a European (and transatlantic) a… African and Black Irish creators in Ireland: the census, the forms, and the European roo… Ireland’s games tax credit: when interactive work counts as European culture MSMN News After Galway 2020: what European Capitals of Culture still buy an Irish city Accessibility on Irish and European VOD: subtitles, sign, description, and the two clock… AI in Irish and European newsrooms: what Article 50 actually makes you disclose Irish podcasts as a European export: audio that travels when the schedule does not European hit versus Irish box office: what the till says that the festival does not Ireland’s co-production treaties: how a film becomes ‘national’ twice Independent Irish television: Sound & Vision, the 7 percent, and the schemes that actual… Forward look: Ireland’s European screen system after the 2026 policy cluster Irish public-service media versus the Nordic model: the licence that would not die The business of Irish media: licence fee, Exchequer top-up, and the streamer next door Cookies, consent and Irish editorial: what the banner is doing to the story Diaspora screens: how Irish film festivals abroad build a European (and transatlantic) a… African and Black Irish creators in Ireland: the census, the forms, and the European roo… Ireland’s games tax credit: when interactive work counts as European culture

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After Galway 2020: what European Capitals of Culture still buy an Irish city — Ireland — Premium Featured

Analysis · Ireland

After Galway 2020: what European Capitals of Culture still buy an Irish city

A European Capital of Culture is not a year of posters. It is a Union action under Decision No 445/2014/EU, a bid book, an expert panel, a Melina Mercouri Prize, a monitoring cycle, and — since the 2020–2033 generation — a duty on the city to commission its own independent evaluation.

1 month ago · 7 min read · By MSMN News Editor

Accessibility on Irish and European VOD: subtitles, sign, description, and the two clocks — Ireland — Premium Featured

Analysis · Ireland

Accessibility on Irish and European VOD: subtitles, sign, description, and the two clocks

A European viewer who can turn on subtitles for a language they do not speak is living inside a culture habit. A viewer who needs those subtitles, or audio description, or Irish Sign Language, to use the service at all is living inside a rights habit.

1 month ago · 7 min read · By MSMN News Editor

AI in Irish and European newsrooms: what Article 50 actually makes you disclose — Ireland — Premium Featured

Analysis · Europe

AI in Irish and European newsrooms: what Article 50 actually makes you disclose

A European reader who wants every AI-touched sentence labelled like a cigarette packet is asking for a law Ireland and the Union did not quite write.

1 month ago · 7 min read · By MSMN News Editor

Irish podcasts as a European export: audio that travels when the schedule does not — Ireland — Premium Featured

Analysis · Ireland

Irish podcasts as a European export: audio that travels when the schedule does not

A European commuter who has never opened RTÉ Player has often already heard Ireland. Podcasts are how Irish speech — news, comedy, sport, documentary — clears geo-gates and prime-time slots that television still treats as territory.

1 month ago · 7 min read · By MSMN News Editor

European hit versus Irish box office: what the till says that the festival does not — Ireland — Premium Featured

Analysis · Ireland

European hit versus Irish box office: what the till says that the festival does not

A European film can be a hit in Locarno and a rumour in Limerick. An Irish film can be a national conversation and still sit outside the European admissions tables that the Audiovisual Observatory’s LUMIERE database is built to hold.

1 month ago · 7 min read · By MSMN News Editor

Ireland’s co-production treaties: how a film becomes ‘national’ twice — Ireland — Premium Featured

Analysis · Europe

Ireland’s co-production treaties: how a film becomes ‘national’ twice

A European producer who says “we’ll just co-pro it” is using a slang word for a treaty act. Official co-production is not a vibe and not a shared Dropbox.

1 month ago · 7 min read · By MSMN News Editor

Independent Irish television: Sound & Vision, the 7 percent, and the schemes that actually commission — Ireland — Premium Featured

Analysis · Ireland

Independent Irish television: Sound & Vision, the 7 percent, and the schemes that actually commission

A European reader who thinks Irish television is “whatever RTÉ commissions” is missing the second treasury.

1 month ago · 7 min read · By MSMN News Editor

Forward look: Ireland’s European screen system after the 2026 policy cluster — Dublin, Ireland — Premium Featured

Analysis · Ireland

Forward look: Ireland’s European screen system after the 2026 policy cluster

None of those parts is a season finale. Together they are the operating system for the next few years of Irish work that European audiences might actually meet.

1 month ago · 7 min read · By MSMN News Editor

Irish public-service media versus the Nordic model: the licence that would not die — Dublin, Ireland — Premium Featured

Analysis · Europe

Irish public-service media versus the Nordic model: the licence that would not die

A European reader who still thinks Ireland “has a BBC model” is a decade late. A reader who thinks Ireland “went Nordic” is early.

1 month ago · 7 min read · By MSMN News Editor

The business of Irish media: licence fee, Exchequer top-up, and the streamer next door — Ireland — Premium Featured

Analysis · Ireland

The business of Irish media: licence fee, Exchequer top-up, and the streamer next door

Irish media is a cultural conversation that sits on a cashflow statement. Public-service television and radio still begin with a licence fee that fewer households treat as inevitable.

1 month ago · 7 min read · By MSMN News Editor

Cookies, consent and Irish editorial: what the banner is doing to the story — Ireland — Premium Featured

Analysis · Ireland

Cookies, consent and Irish editorial: what the banner is doing to the story

A European reader who meets an Irish news or culture site through a cookie wall is already inside a media-policy story, even if the panel only looks like plumbing.

1 month ago · 7 min read · By MSMN News Editor

Diaspora screens: how Irish film festivals abroad build a European (and transatlantic) audience — Dublin, Ireland — Premium Featured

Analysis · Europe

Diaspora screens: how Irish film festivals abroad build a European (and transatlantic) audience

An Irish film that never plays a Tuesday in suburban Dublin can still play a packed Thursday in Chicago, Belgrade or Washington. That is not a paradox of taste.

1 month ago · 7 min read · By MSMN News Editor