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Analysis · Sep 14, 2026

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.

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Analysis · Sep 13, 2026

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.

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Analysis · Sep 13, 2026

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.

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Analysis · Sep 13, 2026

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.

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Analysis · Sep 13, 2026

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.

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Analysis · Sep 12, 2026

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.

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Analysis · Sep 12, 2026

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.

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Analysis · Sep 12, 2026

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.

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Analysis · Sep 12, 2026

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.

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Analysis · Sep 12, 2026

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.

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Analysis · Sep 12, 2026

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.

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Analysis · Sep 12, 2026

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.

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Analysis · Sep 11, 2026

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.

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Analysis · Sep 11, 2026

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.

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Analysis · Sep 11, 2026

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.

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Analysis · Sep 11, 2026

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.

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Analysis · Sep 11, 2026

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.

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Analysis · Sep 11, 2026

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.

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Analysis · Sep 11, 2026

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.

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Analysis · Sep 11, 2026

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.

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