Jim, you could be right about the "seizure of premises" part. This would depend on the way the law views a branch of CCE, and I just don't know. If branches are separate legal entities with their own articles of incorporation, and if the Clontarf branch was in fact part-owner of the Centre, then the national organization could be breaking the law by seizing it. But if the branches are, legally speaking, merely parts of Comhaltas, as Comhaltas asserts, then Comhaltas can't "seize" their "property," because Comhaltas technically already owned it. (This would be like a management company reorganizing and eliminating a branch office that managed a block of flats, bringing that building under the wing of the central office. Five people might lose their jobs, but the company didn't seize anything it didn't own already. We might have sympathy for the folks whose jobs were lost, but the government won't step in to do anything about it...)