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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. ....