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

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 happen…

2 days ago · 7 min read · By MSMN Newsroom

Analysis · Europe

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

Second-generation Irish audiences in Europe: citizenship, habit, and the missing shelf MSMN’s earlier diaspora-festivals piece asked how Irish film weekends tur…

2 days ago · 7 min read · By MSMN Newsroom

Analysis · Ireland

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

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…

2 days ago · 7 min read · By MSMN Newsroom

Analysis · Ireland

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

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 Ir…

2 days ago · 8 min read · By MSMN Newsroom

Analysis · Ireland

Irish music and festivals on the European live circuit

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. Irish artists…

2 days ago · 7 min read · By MSMN Newsroom

Analysis · Ireland

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

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 inter…

2 days ago · 8 min read · By MSMN Newsroom

Analysis · Ireland

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

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 con…

2 days ago · 7 min read · By MSMN Newsroom

Analysis · Ireland

Polish, Brazilian and Ukrainian media demand in 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-la…

3 days ago · 7 min read · By MSMN Newsroom

Analysis · Ireland

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

Who can buy an Irish newsroom? Media mergers, plurality and the EMFA A European reader who follows Irish news on a phone already lives inside a concentrated mar…

3 days ago · 7 min read · By MSMN Newsroom

Analysis · Ireland

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

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…

3 days ago · 7 min read · By MSMN Newsroom

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. Irish animati…

3 days ago · 7 min read · By MSMN Newsroom

Analysis · Ireland

Ireland’s creator economy under the Digital Services Act

Ireland’s creator economy under the Digital Services Act A European teenager’s media diet is no longer only a schedule and a catalogue. It is a person: a footba…

3 days ago · 7 min read · By MSMN Newsroom