It was indeed a good session at the Good Intent, especially the surprise performance by the sword dancers! I shall be back there on Monday.

As for the Shooglenifty concert, why was the band stopped so abruptly at 10.10 p.m.? They announced that a complaint had been received about the noise. As it was in the middle of the Castle Gardens at a relatively early hour on a Saturday evening in the middle of a festival; and given that the level of amplification was not very high (I was sitting right at the front, so I should know!), it hardly sounds feasible. Much bigger and noisier acts (e.g. Staus Quo) have performed in the Castle Gardens in recent years, so it's not as if it's something new.

Can anyone enlighten me?