> I notice the young musicians from the troubled Clontarf Branch of CCE have been overlooked by the organisers of the Temple Bar TradFest... It would seem Labhras has power outside of Monkstown.

> Why have the organisers of the Temple Bar Trad allowed their festival to be contaminated by internal Comhaltas politics?

Fear of reprisals, overt or covert? It's a common tactic among dictators. Those in the head office can do anything they want to. There's no facility in place to stop them. Handy, isn't it?