Minister seeks help to appoint museum board

Arts minister Heather Humphreys has called in the experts to help her appoint nine new members to the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

Last year, she was embroiled in political controversy when she appointed Fine Gael’s Seanad by-election candidate John McNulty to the Imma board. He was nominated six days later for the Seanad’s cultural and educational panel, leading to accusations that Fine Gael was engaging in “stroke ...