Mick Clifford: Arts Council CEO Maureen Kennelly was an easy target for minister

Minister O'Donovan has thrown Arts Council's Maureen Kennelly under the bus rather than properly deal with departmental dysfunction, writes Mick Clifford

Maureen Kennelly's contract was  not renewed. Instead she was offered a nine-month contract which she rejected. Photo: Tristan Hutchinson

There is a strange and dark interpretation of accountability in the State apparatus. 

For those who are on the inside, in positions of power or influence, accountability is a minor obstacle to be avoided. But anybody who is beyond the gilded catchment can, when necessary, be thrown under a bus to quell rumblings of discontent among the masses.