Jim, Im commenting on your post,imo you waste much of your time getting over excited verbally, a shame really because on other occasions you are helpful to others with information.
I agree with you that CCE are a curates egg both good and bad in places,
but you are living in cloud cuckoo land if you try to deny that thousands of pounds are poured in to tradtional music in ireland through cce, or that tradtional music is encouraged through the media and has been for years on radio and television,or there have been programmes on tradtional music on television and radio for over 30 years.