"They don't decide anything of the sort Dick - they make a policy for their own clubs - you are a lone outsider banging on the door demanding to be let in."
I am not a lone outsider, I do sing and have been booked at singers clubs and I sing unaccompanied.
I am afraid they do effectively decide, they impose rules in their clubs, these rules would prevent margaret barry and pecker dunn from using accompaniment, if you have a rule it has to apply to everybody, so if Barry and Dunne turned up they would be prevented from using accompaniment.
There are not many singers clubs in Ireland, AND WHAT IS NOT KNOWN IS HOW MANY PEOPLE CHOOSE NOT TO ATTEND BECAUSE OF THE NO INSTRUMENT POLICY.