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African and Black Irish creators in Ireland: the census, the forms, and the European room — Dublin, Ireland — Premium Featured

Analysis · Ireland

African and Black Irish creators in Ireland: the census, the forms, and the European room

MSMN’s earlier African-storytelling piece asked how demand, diaspora and FAST channels put African work into European living rooms. This piece is the Irish production half of that sentence.

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

Ireland’s games tax credit: when interactive work counts as European culture — Dublin, Ireland — Premium Featured

Analysis · Ireland

Ireland’s games tax credit: when interactive work counts as European culture

For most of the last two decades Ireland treated games as an ICT export that happened to look like entertainment: studios in Dublin and elsewhere, often service-oriented, sitting nearer to software tax conversations than to Screen Ireland.

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

Second-generation Irish audiences in Europe: citizenship, habit, and the missing shelf — Berlin, United Kingdom — Premium Featured

Analysis · Europe

Second-generation Irish audiences in Europe: citizenship, habit, and the missing shelf

MSMN’s earlier diaspora-festivals piece asked how Irish film weekends turn production into audiences abroad. This piece is the household half of that sentence.

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

Finding Irish film in Europe: why production records are not audiences — Ireland — Premium Featured

Analysis · Ireland

Finding Irish film in Europe: why production records are not audiences

Ireland can point to record production spend, a thicker VFX offer and a strategy document that talks about audiences as a pillar. A viewer in Lyon, Leipzig or even Limerick can still fail to find the Irish title that policy just paid for.

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

Film literacy in Irish schools: a European habit, not a cinema trip — Dublin, Ireland — Premium Featured

Analysis · Ireland

Film literacy in Irish schools: a European habit, not a cinema trip

A European reader who treats film literacy as an optional school outing is looking at the Irish file from the wrong end.

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

Irish music and festivals on the European live circuit — Dublin, Ireland — Premium Featured

Analysis · Ireland

Irish music and festivals on the European live circuit

A European summer now has an Irish date in it even if you never fly to Stradbally or Sligo.

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

Women’s football on Irish screens: rights, public service and the European season — Ireland — Premium Featured

Analysis · Ireland

Women’s football on Irish screens: rights, public service and the European season

A European football weekend used to mean a men’s rights map: free-to-air internationals, pay-TV clubs, a pub argument about Saturday 3 p.m. Women’s football now has a map of its own, and Ireland’s version is unusually public.

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

Who owns the Irish story? IP rights after the DSM Directive — Ireland — Premium Featured

Analysis · Ireland

Who owns the Irish story? IP rights after the DSM Directive

A European viewer who finishes an Irish drama, a TG4 crime series or a Cartoon Saloon feature is consuming someone else’s intellectual property.

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

Polish, Brazilian and Ukrainian media demand in Ireland — Kyiv, Ireland — Premium Featured

Analysis · Ireland

Polish, Brazilian and Ukrainian media demand in Ireland

Ireland’s screen and news policy still talks, most days, as if the audience were Irish-English, Irish-language, and a diaspora abroad. The living room is already more specific.

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

Who can buy an Irish newsroom? Media mergers, plurality and the EMFA — Ireland — Premium Featured

Analysis · Ireland

Who can buy an Irish newsroom? Media mergers, plurality and the EMFA

The legal question is not whether that market feels small. It is who is allowed to buy whom, and who decides that the deal is compatible with plurality — the idea that a democracy needs more than one owner of the stories people share.

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

Data centres, streaming and the carbon bill behind the Irish catalogue — Dublin, Ireland — Premium Featured

Analysis · Ireland

Data centres, streaming and the carbon bill behind the Irish catalogue

A European evening of Irish or American television looks weightless: a tile, a Player, a phone on a train. The Irish electricity system does not experience it that way.

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

Animation and VFX in Ireland: quiet export engine for Europe — Dublin, Ireland — Premium Featured

Analysis · Ireland

Animation and VFX in Ireland: quiet export engine for Europe

Irish live-action drama arrives in European living rooms with faces attached: a Rooney adaptation, a Dublin crime family, an Apple TV+ sisterhood.

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