>these procedures were legal according to the Comhaltas constitution.

I don't doubt that the procedures were legal. But legality does not mean justice. It simply means there's no law against it. That doesn't make it right.

Constitutional? You can bet your bloody boots they were constitutional. "The CEC (ardchomhairle) shall be the supreme governing body of An Comhaltas from Annual Congress to Annual Congress and the sole and final authority to interpret the Rules and Constitution. Its jurisdiction shall extend over the whole Organisation." No kidding.

I do doubt that they were democratic by any definition of the word except the one Comhaltas chooses to put on it. Democratic means by the will of the majority.

"Does not specify an appeal procedure" is a fancy way of saying that there isn't one.

That last CCE post boils down to "We can because we say we can." Of course it's legal. The whole point is that they can do something like this and GET AWAY WITH IT.

What this shows is that it's time to make the balance of power more fair.