Hi Lang Johnnie Mor,
Ok, I may have misread and misunderstood your sentence - "The nearest we have in Scotland would be the TMSA......" - which to me (and maybe others) implied that there wasn't a Comhaltas set-up in Scotland. If so, I apologise for the misinterpretation.
I did do a little research before my post of 24/11/24 at 6.54 AM, and the figure of 35 years came from this website: https://www.stjamesthegreatcce.com/
which has been the venue for meetings of CCE for 35 years.
I should instead have gone to this website, which gives the full history of CCE in Glasgow, from January 1957:
https://www.glasgowirishminstrels.com/history

So, Johnnie, big mouthful of humble pie here, which I hope you'll accept and not be too hard on me!
And I agree entirely with your final sentence in that last post of yours.