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Climate protesters arrested after throwing tomato soup on Van Gogh masterpiece

Two Just Stop Oil supporters have been arrested after throwing tinned soup at one of Vincent Van Gogh’s most famous paintings to protest against fossil fuels. The protesters, wearing Just Stop Oil T-shirts, threw two tins of Heinz Tomato soup over ...

14 Oct 2022 at 13:47

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Iconic Tipperary monument the Rock of Cashel featured in new video talk series

Friends of the National Gallery of Ireland can enjoy The Art of Walking online with a new series of videos inspired by Irish landscapes from Ardmore Round Tower in County Waterford to the Rock of Cashel in Tipperary. Spanning the four provinces ...

11 Jun 2021 at 20:00

National News

No more government money will be spent on unused art gallery scanner – minister

No more government funding will be given to help house an unused scanner bought by the National Gallery eight years ago, Patrick O’Donovan has said. The Arts Minister said the issue around how the X-ray scanner was bought without preparations ...

26 Feb 2025 at 09:13

Local News

Call for Tipperary artists to display art in the National Gallery on Culture Night

The National Gallery of Ireland will host a wide range of family-friendly activities throughout the Gallery space on Culture Night, Friday, 22 September. Guests can visit our newly acquired ‘La Vie des Champs’ by Paul Cézanne, explore the ...

02 Sept 2023 at 11:30

Arts & Entertainment

REVEALED: The discovery of the unknown Vincent Van Gogh portrait

A curator at the National Galleries of Scotland learned that a previously unknown self-portrait of Vincent Van Gogh had been found on the back of another painting while she was waiting outside a fish shop. Professor Frances Fowle, a ...

14 Jul 2022 at 15:33

Business

Job opportunities for Tipperary students and employers through accounting apprenticeship

Tipperary students have been encouraged to apply for a national accounting technician apprenticeship programme, which will create jobs in the region as part of 125 positions nationally. And local employers have been encouraged to ...

17 Jun 2021 at 09:30

National News

Bureaucratic delays tied up return of ‘Liberator’ painting

It took more than two years for Ireland to accept the gift of a painting of Daniel O’Connell from a bank, after concerns that the Irish parliament was only receiving a copy of the original portrait. O’Connell, known as The ...

28 Dec 2024 at 00:01

UPDATE: Irish Twitter users vow to boycott National Gallery over controversial café contract

National News

Irish Twitter users vow to boycott National Gallery as Aramark receives café contract

Update A statement issued by Aramark to Iconic Media on February 23 is as follows: Aramark operates 3 out of the 48 direct provision centres nationwide. Our role is to support the residents living in the three centres ...

22 Feb 2022 at 18:06

National News

'Where does it stop?' - People outraged by the National Gallery's €124,000 unused scanner

Once again, the Government is faced with another scandal regarding the money spent on a special scanner for the National Gallery, just months after the notorious Dáil bike shed debacle. It has emerged that a special ...

25 Feb 2025 at 13:56

Arts & Entertainment

'Clever' - Irish musician backs climate activists who defaced Van Gogh painting

Bob Geldof has said the climate change protesters who threw soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers were “1000% right”. The Irish musician, 71, said it had been “clever” to deface the 1888 painting while it was covered by ...

25 Oct 2022 at 12:39

National News

Government accused of ‘deep-rooted’ culture of waste

The Government has been accused of being “deep rooted” in a culture of “waste and incompetence”, after it emerged that a scanner bought eight years ago remains unused at the National Gallery. It was reported that ...

25 Feb 2025 at 19:09

National News

Calls for National Gallery to answer questions on unused artworks scanner

The National Gallery has been urged to address issues around an artworks scanner bought eight years ago that has not been used. The Sunday Independent reported that there have been issues finding a location for ...

25 Feb 2025 at 12:05

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