How do you know when they’re deserving? When they’re miserable, that’s how, writes Victoria White.

Film-maker George Morrison has been elected as Saoi in Aosdána.

IT STRUCK a sensitive nerve when the poet WJ Mc Cormack, aka Hugh Maxton, this week defended Aosdána’s annual funding of €2.7 million by mentioning that Fair City cost €11 million. This fact was met, according to an RTÉ report, with laughter from the floor of Aosdána’s general assembly meeting at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham.