Monday, 23 April 2012

WHY IS THE IFB IN GALWAY?

Simple really: our current President Michael Daniel Higgins was Minister for the Arts back in the early 1990s and he helped reestablish our Film Board. His constituency was in Galway and that is why our Board was put there. Imagine how good Irish movies could have been if Higgins had been from Dublin?
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