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Can you restrict residency based on Irish-language fluency?

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    #92
    Diorraing
    Registered Users Posts: 261 ✭✭Diorraing


    Nuttzz wrote:
    Making areas irish only, making irish a working eu langauge, why bother? The irish langauge is dead, build a bridge and get over it....

    According to the 2002 census 1,570,894 people can speak Irish. So its really goin to be hard for you to say that its dead.


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    #93
    Nuttzz
    Registered Users Posts: 3,775 ✭✭✭Nuttzz


    Diorraing wrote:
    According to the 2002 census 1,570,894 people can speak Irish. So its really goin to be hard for you to say that its dead.

    Yeah, when my father filled out the census form he marked our family as an irish speaking one so what those that mean? 390,000 people in the UK said their religion was "Jedi".... :rolleyes:


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    #94
    ReefBreak
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    Diorraing wrote:
    According to the 2002 census 1,570,894 people can speak Irish.
    And for about 95% of that figure, this ability to speak Irish only counts if the whole conversation is about (a) permission to go the toilet or (b) their adventures picking blackberries in a field.


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    #95
    Diorraing
    Registered Users Posts: 261 ✭✭Diorraing


    ReefBreak wrote:
    And for about 95% of that figure, this ability to speak Irish only counts if the whole conversation is about (a) permission to go the toilet or (b) their adventures picking blackberries in a field.

    Ha ha. Funny
    The number may be a bit OTT but the fact of the matter is Irish is far from being a dead language.


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    #96
    Sponge Bob
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    Wickila also 'restricts' residency in its county development plan but thats based on ovine grounds not linguistic ones.


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    #97
    ishmael whale
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    Diorraing wrote:
    The number may be a bit OTT

    A bit OTT? I would have said utterly unrealistic, and totally unrepresentative of the actual place of An Teanga in Irish life.

    Why do I have the feeling that before long you'll be reminding us that the Constitution says it's the first official language?


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    #98
    Diorraing
    Registered Users Posts: 261 ✭✭Diorraing


    ishmael whale wrote:
    Why do I have the feeling that before long you'll be reminding us that the Constitution says it's the first official language?

    I don't know, because you like putting words into other peoples' mouths?


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    #99
    ishmael whale
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    I doff my hat to you, sir. That's the last time I let my guard down in any language.


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    ReefBreak wrote:
    And for about 95% of that figure, this ability to speak Irish only counts if the whole conversation is about (a) permission to go the toilet or (b) their adventures picking blackberries in a field.

    :D


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