Film centre’s funding cuts leaflet ‘in poor taste’

A government TD has criticised a film organisation for distributing leaflets which depict a man about to get his throat cut.

A row has developed between a Fine Gael TD and Cork Film Centre over the leaflets which were sent to politicians throughout the city and county criticising Arts Council funding cuts.

Deputy Tom Barry said he had no problem with the organisation highlighting funding cuts, but it shouldn’t have used such an image following recent atrocities in Iraq. He said the picture being used is in extremely bad taste considering the recent beheadings by ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) in Iraq of American journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley.