TC McCarthy

I actually resolved it myself.

Rather than removing the action I added the following line to my own functions file

add_filter(‘show_admin_bar’, ‘__return_true’, 100); — by making the priority 100 I’m waiting until well after the parent theme turns the admin bar off before I turn it back on.

How about just speaking to the hooks in general — I’m not looking for support for the theme, but rather the concept. I appears remove_action isn’t working on this hook.