For several months in the latter half of 2025, a room at the Arts Council’s headquarters on Merrion Square was designated as a secure room.  It was set aside for the three members of an expert advisory committee commissioned to carry out a wide-ranging review of the Arts Council in the wake of the failed multi-million-euro IT project that mired the agency in controversy last year.  The trio – UCD corporate governance specialists Professor Niamh Brennan and Dr Margaret Cullen, and John McCarthy, former secretary general at the housing department – released their findings last week.  Their 270-page report is…

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