"The arts can engender enormous national and local pride when our filmmakers, actors, directors, musicians, dancers, writers and artists perform well. It is integral to our culture, identity and history. Our high performance creators and performers inspire the next generation 1/3

reinforcing high standards and motivate children in every community. We will step up State funding to compete with other highly-successful countries our size and facilitate a multi-cycle approach to high performance funding."
There, I fixed it by just swapping it for sport. 2/3

For sanity's sake, I await the July detail in the(perhaps futile)hope that this can be salvaged. That Culture Ireland will appear, somewhere in this PfG. That the Arts Council will be more than a passing nod. That this is not 'it'.
#SaveTheArts
#programmeforgovernment 3/3