You need to remember that Comhaltas is divided into two parts - (rank and file (branches) and leadership), and don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
The branches have kept the music alive for over half a century by organising sessions and classes and promoting the music, while on the other hand the leadership........... well!!! Breandán Breathnach once describes them as "an organisation with a great future behind it!"
Personally, I have a problem with any organisation based on competitions, but that's me.
It seems astounding to me that there has not been a murmer from any of the branches.
Jim Carroll