In my opinion, anyone who can even barely tolerate the pretentious stage school-ery of these summer cabaret auditionees, has no understanding of good quality Irish music.
This is painfully phoney and the cringe-o-meter goes off the scale for most Irish people. I almost feel it's our duty in advance to apologize for this embarrassing musical export.
Some accountant is right now humming (badly) their tunes and laughing at all the guillible idiots who pay to listen to this muck. The lads are just totally rapturous that they don't have to audition for amateur productions of the HMS Pinafore anymore.
This crap can be seen in any low grade pub across the back end of Ireland - where it belongs.

M. Quinn.