I believe Temple Fire are a 'Celtic' folk group made up of Liverpool University students. Might be one or two decent players among them but on the other hand...

A few years ago I started up a session at the Edinburgh, Sandown Lane, Wavertree. It started as a one-off St Patrick's gig then became a regular session. This now runs on Mondays. Used to be a good place for a tune but it's quite variable nowadays. Tends to be a bit heavy on the singing - not all of it great. Nothing wrong with singing, but there used to be so few places where you could be sure of a good tune and now there's one less. Still has its moments, though. One to bear in mind next time you're coming up.

The regular session at the St Michaels Centre is on the last Friday of the month so you would have missed that one as well. However, it's always worth giving them a call - lots of musicians will turn up for a session at short notice if they know someone's in town who's up for a tune. Give me a shout next time. I'm on the Comhaltas website under 'Liverpool'.