Arts And Culture

Cover image People Before Profit Arts for the People

Arts Policy: Arts for the People

Pay Artists Properly, Make Space for the Arts, Make Arts Affordable, Support the Arts at Night, Fund the Arts

13 May 2026

People Before Profit Launches New Arts for the People Policy

People Before Profit Launches New Arts for the People Policy

Provides radical vision and practical solutions for the arts. Focus on funding, income, spaces and housing for artists. "People Before Profit commit to major increases in funding for the arts and to ensure artists have adequate incomes to live and create, and can access spaces for their art."

13 May 2026

Cllr Conor Reddy and the Axis Café at the Axis Centre Ballymun

Axis Café Closure Devastating Blow for Ballymun

Cllr Reddy said any solution must also protect workers who have given years of service to the café and the community. “Axis Café is not just another business. It is a vital community space in Ballymun."

12 May 2026

Black and White Shaun Harkin with microphone; Protestors in background one holds a party placard saying Build Homes Not Bombs - One World One Struggle.

Harkin: Invest in Jobs That Serve Humanity, Not War Industry That Destroys Humanity

"Instead of investing in a murder machine... we should and can be investing in jobs in health, in education, in building housing... The arms industry should be abolished, not normalised as an 'area of opportunity' and profit."

22 Apr 2026

'Eoghan's Big Gig' with Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin playing flute

Big Ticket Sales for Fundraiser for Dublin Central By-Election Candidate Demonstrates Momentum of Campaign

John Francis Flynn, Varo, Niamh Keady-Tabbal, Saltaire, the Resistance Choir and by-election candidate Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin to perform at the Button Factory this evening.

22 Apr 2026

Poster Advertising Fundraising Concert: April 22nd Button Factory Doors 1900 Eoghan's Big Gig w/ John Francis Flynn, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin, Varo, Niamh Keady Tabbal, Saltaire

Fundraising Gig Announced for Dublin Central By-Election Candidate Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin

John Francis Flynn, Varo, Niamh Keady-Tabbal, Saltaire and Eoghan to perform at the Button Factory on 22nd April.

6 Apr 2026

Paul Murphy in front of televisions

Paul Murphy: ‘Greedy’ Sky Should Drop its Legal Action Against Dodgy Box Users

Calls for dramatic funding increase for public broadcasting. "Culture and entertainment cannot be the preserve of profit-driven corporations. The privatisation and defunding of public service broadcasting has been a disaster. It must be reversed."

3 Apr 2026

Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin inside Croke Park with the occupation 28 Feb 2026

Ó Ceannabháin Joins Occupation of Croke Park “GAA Cannot Take Genocide Money”

Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin, People Before Profit candidate in the Dublin Central by-election, is currently inside Croke Park as part of an occupation during the GAA’s Annual Congress, following a protest outside the Jones’s Road entrance this morning.

28 Feb 2026

Mount Melleray Abbey from Wikipedia image

Trump Supporter Takes Over Mount Melleray

The Waterford abbey is likely to become a US-linked right-wing university instead of a public amenity.

24 Feb 2026