A few comments on the above.

To Captain Birdseye - unless New Labour has slipped in a recent amendment to the law of libel it's legally impossible to libel someone who's dead.

To Ron Olesko - PK's demand for 75% of the retail price of the CD compilation which I proposed ignored the fact that he had absolutely no claim to eight of the tracks which would have appeared (and were recorded by Néillidh Boyle in the late 1930s), but he still wanted his shekels. There was no question of the fiddler being involved in the arrangement since he was sadly long dead.

PK's commercial exploitation of Tom Munnelly's tapes of John Reilly was simply fradulent, and about that there can be no doubt. But he did exactly the same thing with James Foley's recordings of the Tyrone singer John Corry. That's just two examples from Ireland. How often did PK use the same methods regarding UK collectors?