Dear Guest, East Dublin-

If only it were that simple!! We thought of that - they won't let us!!!


The newly formed self-appointed Craobh Chluain Tarbh committee has written this week to MOST of the families of the dissolved branch "inviting" them to join their classes in Clasac in September. However, the children of certain members of the dissolved committee have not been invited to join!!!! Certain families have obviously been hand-picked and anyone whose parent has been deemed to be questioning of HQ has been ignored deliberately. As if any member of Ceoltóirí Chluain Tarbh has any intention of being lured to this new Craobh with promises of a spanking new building - and nothing else!!

When one of the dissolved committee members put it to the "Chairperson" of the self-appointed committee that all Clontarf members should be allowed go to the secret meeting in Malahide to set up a new branch, he was told they could not come as the general populace of the original Clontarf Comhaltas would vote out the new committee and revert to the original committee!! Is this not the way democracy works? Obviously not in Comhaltas circles!!

There is "no playing Comhaltas at their own game" as Guest from East Dublin so elequently put it. The dissolved members are honourable people who have been treated abominably in ways reminiscint of communism.They have always acted with dignity. Clontarf branch has , at all times, begged for professional mediation to make some headway at this impasse. All requests have been either ignored or refused and the ordinary members of the dissolved branch have been at the receiving end of countless, unsigned , vitriolic, accusatory letters from Labhras addressed to each individual family. The latest several page epistle accuses members of the branch of "exploiting children in their care" . What a scandalous accusation!!

The Reel Clontarf Comhaltas (now called Ceoltóirí Chluain Tarbh) is as united as ever in the face of their unjust and unwarranted treatment.