Artists launch campaign to highlight their contribution to the economy

ALL art is certainly political now with Irish luminaries coming out to highlight the value of the arts to Ireland’s economic and social recovery.

Novelist and journalist Colm Tóibín joined other well-known actors, comedians and singers in Dublin yesterday for the launch of the National Campaign for the Arts.

Mr Tóibín said the cutbacks in the arts proposed in the McCarthy Report and the Report of the Commission on Taxation would be counter-productive.