Dan,

It may take a few days or even a week for you to get a return reply on your email about the Fleadh. As they draw closer to the festival date, it gets a bit more hectic. The only indicator that here might not be a festival this year does, indeed, lie with the website not being updated.

I receive the Journal of Music weekly updates via email, which advise of all of the music venues occurring across Ireland during a specific month. You might take a look at that, as well.

Though three is a lot to be said for the organized festivals, I still favor the impromptu seissuns you happen across in the pubs. 

Slan Beo, Bit