Fergal Sharkey is NOT part of the solution. He is part of the PROBLEM.

A professional musician, in it for the money, is unlikely to be trying to benefit the largely amateur folk scene, and in any case his spouting the official government lies is counterproductive to the future of the live music venues destroyed by this inept legislation.

Anything he says is irreparably tainted with the political expediency of a government which cannot be seen to admit it got things wrong, no matter the cost to the culture and heritage of this country.

Don T.