Paul McGuinness
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- For the musician Paul McGuinness see Shane MacGowan and the Popes.
Paul McGuinness is the main shareholder and founder of Principle Management Limited: an artist management company based in Dublin, Ireland, which has managed U2 from the start of their successful career. He is the manager of U2, PJ Harvey, Art Of Noise, Paddy Casey, and Mytownband.
His career has been spent working in the entertainment industry and he is well known throughout the world in both the film and music business.
McGuinness holds numerous directorships including TV3 and Ardmore Studios. He is a board member of Digital Hub Development Agency and of the School of Film and Drama at University College Dublin.
He has previously been a member of the Arts Council of Ireland, serving on three successive Arts Councils, from 1989 until 2000. He was also a member of The Millennium Committee and the Content Advisory Group of the Information Society Commission (the Commission, an independent advisory body to the Irish Government, was disbanded at the end of 2004).