What happened when Irish taxpayers paid artists £280 a week for a year (no strings attached)

What happened when Irish taxpayers paid artists £280 a week for a year (no strings attached)

The last few years haven’t been easy for Conor Matthews. As a writer and creative struggling to make ends meet while pursuing paid work, he found himself on benefits.

He was pushed to take any job he could find and moved on to do night shifts as a porter at a hotel. The job was so draining that he had little energy left to pursue his passions.

“I was feeling extremely anxious,” he says.Just as he felt his prospects in life were dwindling, he was handed a lifeline. The Irish government selected him as one of the participants in a basic […]

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