"nonsense, Comhaltas started to get money in the sixties over 50 years ago to promote traditional music"
And virtually ran Irish music into the ground with its diddly-di approach, its politics and its competitions.
It remained where it was and the leading influence in Irish music because its director managed to get himself appointed to the senate and manipulate the purse strings in favour of its own organisation.
That grip was broken by the setting up of The Willie Clancy Summer School, forty years ago, which rejected Comhaltas's political and competitive advances, and the setting up of The Irish Traditional Music Archive which was in no way influenced by C.C.E"
the grip has not been broken you silly old fool, it unfortunately is thriving, for god sake come out of your ivory tower and recognise what is happening, all this crap about money from the arts, you are a blithering old toothless sabre rattler.