€7m for Abbey Theatre as Arts Council announce €68.4m in funding

People right across the country will experience the arts in new and exciting ways in 2018, the Arts Council have pledged today.

Outlining its plan to invest €68.4m over the course of the year, the agency for developing the arts said the focus of this year’s investment would be on creating opportunities for the public to experience large-scale work, as well as work of real artistic ambition, by supporting organisations through its two new funding programmes.