| # | Name | Comments |
|---|
| 1501 | Gareth Hudson | |
| 1502 | Mark Fitzgerald | |
| 1503 | Eveliina Paavola | |
| 1504 | Matti Närhinsalo | |
| 1505 | Michael Layne | |
| 1506 | Anonymous | No way, man! |
| 1507 | Anonymous | |
| 1508 | Maurice FitzGerald | keep the musical opportunities for the young open! |
| 1509 | Anonymous | |
| 1510 | Damian Boylan | |
| 1511 | Peter O'Leary | 'The board of NYOI said it was difficult to attract musicians of a requisite standard to justify the running of two orchestras.' Why? Less students of music? Hardly. Students cannot afford the rapidly escalating costs of attending NYOI residential courses ? More likely. An absolute shame in our present economic boom. We need more generous benefactors like Tim Mahony. |
| 1512 | Clare Fleming | |
| 1513 | Anonymous | I would like to support all those in favour of keeping both orchestras. |
| 1514 | pekka niskanen | |
| 1515 | Aine Magee | |
| 1516 | Anonymous | |
| 1517 | Anonymous | |
| 1518 | Jessica Garnett | |
| 1519 | ronan reid | |
| 1520 | Jussi Järvenpää | |
| 1521 | Fergus Burke | This is an appalling decision. |
| 1522 | michael long | |
| 1523 | Louise Rabbitt | |
| 1524 | Wendy Stephens | |
| 1525 | Stuart Kinsella | |
| 1526 | Anonymous | |
| 1527 | Jarrett Zigon | |
| 1528 | Fiona Macardle | Given that music reaches the parts that other subjects cannot reach, why stunt the experience of young players who will be the professionals of the future, or indeed the experience of the audience of watching our cultural future develop and grow in front of them. |
| 1529 | Johannes Mueller-Trede | |
| 1530 | Ruth Nic an Eanaigh | |
| 1531 | Maeve Kerney | |
| 1532 | Willie White | |
| 1533 | Martin Pike | |
| 1534 | David Strange | |
| 1535 | Paula Elmore | |
| 1536 | Karin Zilliacus | |
| 1537 | Clara Grimes | |
| 1538 | Jean Hamilton | |
| 1539 | Shea McNeill | |
| 1540 | Mark Phelan | |
| 1541 | Eoghan Duffy | |
| 1542 | Gordon Elliott | |
| 1543 | Michelle Fleming | |
| 1544 | Daniel O'Neill | |
| 1545 | Daniel O'Neill | |
| 1546 | Una Ni Bhroithe | |
| 1547 | Andrew Adams | As a young musician from belfast, the NYOI has always been the next target you aim for after the Ulster Youth Orchesra. Its also unique in the fact that it unites the best young musicians from all over Ireland, affording them the opportunity to work with some of the most talented professional musicians and conductors from around the world!! It would be a terrible loss for the young Irish orchestral musicians of the future if this institution is denied them! |
| 1548 | Chris Elliott | All over the world youth arts organisation are creating more junior training branches as the logical way to improve young performers experiences and chances, yet here we have Ireland, famed the world over for music, literature and education as the very touchstones of its society, failing children with this decision and failing them generally.
Would Joyce or Yeats, Shaw or Wilde, Behan or Beckett have approve of such a decision,? Might The Chieftains or Christy Moore? Would any of the great artists of Ireland see such rationalisation as anything other than insanely and cynically irrational?
When Mary Hanafin, or President McAleese, or Mr Ahern picks up their silver-plated trowel to lay the foundation stone for the redevelopment of the National Concert Hall, let us hope that they will not have fist buried the hopes of children who might later have become Ireland's pride by filling it. |
| 1549 | Samuel Ponnuthurai | |
| 1550 | Geraldine Lennon | |