Whatever the rights and wrongs of this situation, I can't help wondering whether the Ceoltóirí Cluain Tarbh are thinking "everyone is out of step except our Johnny". I don't recall anything coming out of the AGM, they don't seem to have any support within Ceoltas, or outside except in their own area. There doesn't seem to have been much support for the petition. It looks to me like the old Committee shot themselves in the foot and as a result got shafted, and the only thing left for Clontarfers who want anything to do with Ceoltas is to bite the bullet and accept the new committee (which, reading the above, seems to have been mostly the original committee who got things started with Clasac in the first place).