It might be a bit paranoid to think that the powers that be have nobbled the site.
Bureaucrats are bureaucrats; they want an easy life and if smothering private aviation will make life easy they will do it unless someone fights back.
And we Irish tend not to fight back against them. Any organisations we start immediately follow Brendan Behan's advice and have "the split" as the first item on the agenda.
Is Irish AOPA an example of this? (Hmm... provisional AOPA, continuation AOPA and "real" AOPA...)
The most amazing thing about Irish Aviation (apart from our inherent laziness, of which I admit to be a leading example) is that Irish fixedwing, chopper, microlight, glider, hangglider and balloon pilots never communicate with each other, nor with skydivers, even though we all have the same interests of minimal and intelligent regulation of licensing and airspace.
To use a common Irish phrase, "Someone should do something..what's on TV?"