AOIFE Attends European Festivals Arts Summit 2019 in Lisbon

Jan Briers, President of the EFA, Barbara Kessler, Director Creative Europe, and Col Croffy, Executive Director, AOIFE.   Over 250 delegates attended the European Festivals Summit held in Lisbon recently. The Irish Association were represented alongside their other 14 Collective and National Association Partners and some 200 festival producers in the capital of Portugal for three days under a European Union…

Limerick Native receives New York award for dedication to the Arts

Emily-Jane Kirwan, a former Crescent College Comprehensive student, is set to be awarded by the Irish Arts Centre in New York City. Now acting as executive director at New York's Marian Goodman Gallery, Ms Kirwan and her husband, Jay Grimm, moved to the USA in 2001, after spending time in Limerick's arts and cultural scene - most notably as the…

Over 300 Men’s Sheds set to receive Government Funding

It has been confirmed recently that over 300 Men's Sheds around the country are due to receive funding from the Government. Minister for Rural and Community Development, Michael Ring TD, recently announced the news that his department would oversee this allocation of funding. Following the allowance of over €500,000 to Men's Sheds last summer, through the Community Enhancement Programme, the…