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Analysis · Sep 13, 2026

Accessibility on Irish and European VOD: subtitles, sign, description, and the two clocks

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…

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Analysis · Sep 13, 2026

AI in Irish and European newsrooms: what Article 50 actually makes you disclose

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…

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Analysis · Sep 13, 2026

Irish podcasts as a European export: audio that travels when the schedule does not

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…

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Analysis · Sep 13, 2026

European hit versus Irish box office: what the till says that the festival does not

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…

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Analysis · Sep 12, 2026

Ireland’s co-production treaties: how a film becomes ‘national’ twice

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…

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Analysis · Sep 12, 2026

Independent Irish television: Sound & Vision, the 7 percent, and the schemes that actually commission

Independent Irish television: Sound & Vision, the 7 percent, and the schemes that actually commission A European reader who thinks Irish television is “what…

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Analysis · Sep 12, 2026

Forward look: Ireland’s European screen system after the 2026 policy cluster

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…

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Analysis · Sep 12, 2026

Irish public-service media versus the Nordic model: the licence that would not die

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…

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Analysis · Sep 12, 2026

The business of Irish media: licence fee, Exchequer top-up, and the streamer next door

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.…

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Analysis · Sep 12, 2026

Cookies, consent and Irish editorial: what the banner is doing to the story

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…

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Analysis · Sep 12, 2026

Diaspora screens: how Irish film festivals abroad build a European (and transatlantic) audience

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…

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Analysis · Sep 11, 2026

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

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…

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Analysis · Sep 11, 2026

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…

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Analysis · Sep 11, 2026

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…

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Analysis · Sep 11, 2026

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…

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Analysis · Sep 11, 2026

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…

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Analysis · Sep 11, 2026

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…

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Analysis · Sep 11, 2026

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…

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Analysis · Sep 11, 2026

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…

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Analysis · Sep 10, 2026

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…

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