Seamus wrote:

"It wasn't the music-loving tourists who destroyed the Temple bar
area, it was the English (mostly) bachelor and hen-parties."

Maybe, but they too are TOURISTS!

It's not practicable to stop the tourists--it was just an aspiration,
based on my observations of mass-tourism on the continent (one place was where I lived in Capri, for example).
And on the positive side, I suppose it provides employment for the musicians. I don't think Fáilte Ireland
will be too worried--tourism here is increasing at record rates every year.

BTW, I've nothing against tourists per se--I play in sessions in Dublin pubs where a few dozen come by
in the Summer and they love the music and we have great craic. But when that few dozen increases to a few hundred...???