Hi, Modette - this was during the "Celtic Tiger" era - maybe 2005 or so. As I walked through the streets of Dublin, it felt that everybody there was under age 30, and they came from all over the world - and they all got drunk on weekends and vomited on the streets.

In the fiddle session Martin took me to, most of the fiddlers were young, and many were Asian - and they were very good. Not so with the singing session - all the singers there were old and Irish, but I could hardly hear them because of the noise from the young people sitting at the bar.

My second experience of Dublin music was about 2012, and it was far better.

-Joe-