Irish Examiner view: Local culture and arts under digital fire

The Covid-19 lockdown brought that reality home in a hard way for many professional artists.

This Friday, anyone from Adrigole, in West Cork, to Ardara, in Co Donegal, and much further afield, can, if they wish and have an adequate broadband signal, watch the Disney+ “global premiere” of the Broadway musical, and Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner, Hamilton.

From a Friday-night-on-the-couch perspective, this may seem worthy of a modest cheer, but it underlines again how technology is leap-frogging geography and threatening the viability of local theatres, cinemas, performers, and artists.