Dick, Dick - and there we were becoming friends! :)

I've been working around the funding systen for a while, you know. I know that funding comes with strings. But you have to admit, the trade-off may well be worth an increased status and security for folk culture in England.

I'm sure the organisation which have just had their regular funding removed are well aware that funding is a double-edged sword.

Hopefully 21st century organisations will learn from the mistakes and pitfalls faced by organisations like Comhaltas in the past. it was 40 or 50 years ago, after all...