Culture clash: Cutbacks will paint arts out of society

CULLING quangos is the new bonfire of the vanities.

Onto the pyre are to be thrown the National Gallery, the Irish Museum of Modern art (IMMA), and the Crawford Gallery in Cork.

Lest you be in anyway concerned, fret not. The merged entities will “retain separate identities”. The National Archives and the Irish Manuscripts Commission are to be merged into the National Library while retaining “separate identities”.