Ruarai,

Comhaltas would be described as a "not for profit" organisation, rather than a non-profitmaking one. Some "not for profit" organisations actually make large amounts of profit. The disctinction is that not for profit orgs are supposed to be primarily motivated by considerations other than profit - in the case of Comhaltas that would be (you might expect) the promotion of the music. Labhrás and Co would do well to remember that.

Comhaltas was founded by a group of musicians whose main interest was promotion of the music, the survival of which was under a real thrat at the time. Through the efforts of these people and others the music is now thriving and thankfully is in no danger of dissappearing any time soon. However the current leadership of Comhaltas can claim little credit for this situation. They have lost their way a long time ago and those interested in the survival of Comhaltas (personally I don't care too much about whether it does or not) would do well to do something about that.