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A promoter, a gallery director, and other key people from the arts world offer their take on 2020
It was the year of living dangerously for many in the arts & culture sector. This is how some of them coped
Angela Dorgan, Mick Flannery, Mary McCarthy and Edel Curtin were among those on the arts/culture front line in 2020.
Thu, 31 Dec, 2020 - 09:13
Ellie O’Byrne
Shane Dunne, managing director, Indiependence. Picture Maura Hickey.
Promoter Shane Dunne is the MD of music festival Indiependence, which announced it was leaving its location of 15 years in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, following the cancellation of Indiependence 2020. Dunne acted as spokesperson for EPIC, the lobbying group formed to support the live events sector. In November, his management company received Live Performance Support Scheme funding of €76,000 to produce a series of musical performances in Mitchelstown Caves.
In August, there was cause for celebration following the miraculous rescue of two cousins who spent 15 hours stranded at sea. Ellen Glynn and Sara Feeney got into difficulty after going paddleboarding at Furbo Beach in Co Galway. A major search and rescue operation was launched after the young women failed to return to shore and many feared the worst.
1. Galway ‘miracle’ rescue
The next morning, however, the pair were discovered by local fisherman Patrick Oliver and his son Morgan. Oliver used his fishing experience to predict where the young women might have drifted and located them some 17 miles from where they had last been seen.
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