The Artane Band will no longer enjoy the patronage of the Lord Mayor of Dublin after a Dublin City Council vote.
On Monday night, Councillors voted in favour of Independent Councillor Mannix Flynn's motion for the Lord Mayor to step aside from the band that is synonymous with All-Ireland Sundays.
Mr Flynn's issue with the band is that they were in the same uniform and use the same name as they did when they had tied to St Joseph's Industrial School in Artane - the notorious Christian Brothers-run institution where horrific child abuse took place.
Cllr Flynn was himself a resident of an industrial school and told the meeting before the vote that former members of the band and industrial schools "suffer lifelong trauma".
"I am simply asking that my fellow councillors look to our situation, those of us who were in those institutions and the men that I represent that were in the Artane Band and who still find the uniform, and indeed the insignia and indeed the name, and indeed the marching of the band on the National Field repugnant and terrifying for them.
He added: "I intend to meet with the band and its members into the future on order matters like the entire disbandment of the band."
Cllr Flynn thanked the Council after his motion was passed.
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