Singers and listeners came from all over Ireland and places like the United States and the United Kingdom for North Wexford Traditional Singing Féile recently.
It was a routine Fianna Fail cumann meeting, but tension gripped the room. The 20-plus attendees at the Loch Garman Arms Hotel in Gorey, Co Wexford, last Monday were a mix of branch members and politicians. Senator Malcolm Byrne sat with some of his party supporters.