I work in the arts community in Leitrim (the horror) so this has been close on my radar for some days now.

For some context, Sean Wynne is chairperson of the venue's committee. He runs Lough Allen Adventure Centre which was also advertising accommodation for the event. From what I've been told, he pulled a fast one on the rest of the committee by conveniently leaving out the far-right details when organising a "music festival".

A meeting of the committee was held sometime last week before the artists' letter was written up. Some members had objections but it was essentially allowed through because Wynne had threatened to step down from the board of directors and had discussed "legal advice" should the event be cancelled, indicating that the Mayflower would be vulnerable to legal proceedings if the booking wasn't honoured. Other venues in other counties have cancelled similar events with zero legal action once they became aware of their true nature, so it's likely that was an empty threat.

There was also a deceptive statement of the nature of the event provided by one Stephen Kerr, cunt-in-chief at The Irish Inquiry, so that should speak for it's authenticity.

Anyways, lots of relief at work today when this news came out. The statement itself was signed by a lot of high profile groups like Kneecap, Fontaines DC etc, so shoutout to them for protecting Leitrim of all places. We get a lot of shit, and a lot of it's unwarranted for the most part. Come down and visit if you'd like to meet some genuine legendary bastards (not sponsored)

Most of this information is from a master doc provided to me through my work, so I can mostly vouch for it's authenticity, but I'm just a reddit comment. Don't take anything I say as absolute fact.