Bernard your remaks are absolutely cock on - exactly what I was getting at.

Some of the most undeserving twits have had the good fortune to start a folk club at the right time in the right place. Its like that parable of the sower of seeds - some places the seed just does not take.

the point is that they are all part of something bigger than the individual aims and ambitions of the various clubs. they are an expression of something fine and creative within our country. someting its worth feeling patriotic about - rather than the damn silly things that we fight wars about.