"......the last thing young people want to do when they move away from home is carry on doing the same thing they did when they were living with their parents."
I think you will find that the upturn in the fortunes of Irish music has meant that youngsters have now come to it in their thousands out of a genuine love for it and not because they have been railroaded into it by their parents.
I agree that, inthe past and largely because of the Comhaltas approach, young people who were involved due to parental pressure , did a runner as soon as they were free of the apron-strings - happly not the case any more.
One fear in the current crisis (caused by greedy bastards and incompetent and corrupt politicians) is that the government will cut the financial support that has done much to bring about the changes in the music.
Jim Carroll