MSMN News briefings from Martins Studio Media Network.
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…
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…
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 I…
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 f…
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…
Independent Irish television: Sound & Vision, the 7 percent, and the schemes that actually commission A European reader who thinks Irish television is “what…
Forward look: Ireland’s European screen system after the 2026 policy cluster A European reader who has followed Ireland’s screen and media file through 2025–202…
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…
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.…
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 a…
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…
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 a…
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…
Second-generation Irish audiences in Europe: citizenship, habit, and the missing shelf MSMN’s earlier diaspora-festivals piece asked how Irish film weekends tur…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Irish-language cinema has had a decade that policy documents now treat as a turning point: An Cailín Ciúin at the Oscars, Kneecap on the festival and BAFTA circ…
Subtitle culture: how Irish and European viewers actually read the screen A European film in an Irish living room is often a reading event. The image is French,…
Ask where Ireland’s screen industry “is” and the postcard answer is the whole island: cliffs, Gaeltacht roads, a Limerick sound stage, a Galway producer’s offic…
Ireland’s documentary boom and the European festival-to-living-room path A European living room now treats non-fiction as a default genre. True-crime series, ce…
A first Irish drama hit on a European streamer can feel like a door kicked open: a Dublin family feud on Netflix, a Sally Rooney adaptation on Hulu and BBC iPla…
Locarno, Berlin and Cannes: the buyer map Irish films actually travel A European viewer meets an Irish film as a title. The industry meets it as a calendar. Feb…
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