Traveller John Reilly sang the long disappeared ballad 'The Maid And The Palmer'
Phil Coulter (who never met John Reilly)copyrighted it.
John Reilly died of malnutrition in a derelict house in Boyle, Roscommon.
Phil Coulter has a weekly television show on Irish television.
There's a lesson in there somewhere; not sure what it is.
Jim Carroll