“The old adage ‘fail to prepare, prepare to fail’ holds very true for this project.”  Niamh Brennan, the esteemed professor of management at UCD, does not mince her words across 270 pages of her review into the fiasco that was the Arts Council’s failed attempt to upgrade its ailing grants management IT system. Signed off on by officials in the summer of 2019, the proposed two-and-a-half-year project with a €2.87 million budget morphed into something much more. Six years later, as problems with the project finally emerged, the public learned of an outlay of €6.47 million – including a €5.3…

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