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The Limerickwoman who was one of Ireland's film pioneers Updated / Tuesday, 2 Mar 2021 07:14 Analysis: Ellen O'Mara Sullivan was one of the team behind the Film Company of Ireland which was established in 1916 The story of Ellen O'Mara Sullivan is intriguing and inspiring. Born in Limerick to a politically active family who ran a successful business, she was not a likely candidate for involvement in the film industry. Yet in March 1916, one month before the Easter Rising, she was part of the team that established the Film Company of Ireland, the first significant Irish fiction film company,...

Commercial Radio was the ‘gold rush’ of the late 1980s, and everyone and anyone wanted a piece of the action. There were rock stars, impresarios, lawyers, sportsmen, public relations gurus, stockbrokers and socialites, all prospecting for a licence to print money. These licences, awarded by the Independent Radio & Television Commission (IRTC), were cheap and they held the promise of easy money for the influential, the fortune and the favoured. The reality turned out to be a little different. The road to radio riches was eventually littered with casualties, but only after the initial eupho...