Irish language gets full EU status today

No need to double down.

You are just another demeaner in the tradition of Gregory Campbell.

Triggered?

Just answering his post like others.

Well-meaning EU minority languages box ticking.

In fairness (to francie!) the reply to me was just a "great replacement" dog whistle or maybe dog fart. I'm sure there's other threads for that.

Before that a sarcastic story about "Shinners" which tbh really has little to do with actual question of whether the state (in Ireland or NI) should try and promote use of the Irish language or not via establishing Irish as a working EU language or by other means. Sinn Féin have never been in govt. here in Ireland + have nothing to do with making Irish an EU working language.

The poster presumably doesn't like "Shinners" and also gets off looking in his cracked crystal ball. Predicting Irish people and language finally getting consigned to the dustbin of history makes him cry with laughter for some reason. Each to their own I suppose.

200+ translators, officials and assorted add ons. With wages, employers contributions, expenses, office space, equipment etc., it will cost well in excess of €25,000,000 per annum, possibly an awful lot more. Fair enough, but it will do absolutely nothing to encourage or assist, one single person in this country or elsewhere to learn the language.

I paid €130 a couple of years ago to attend a refresher course in Conradh na Gaeilge in Dublin for (I think) 10 x 2 hour classes with about 12 others. I see they're around €150 now. Maybe if they did something to reduce the price of this, then it may encourage some people to go back and learn it.

Or maybe just promote speaking classes locally. Basic Irish conversation in local community halls or schools or libraries at night for whoever wants to pick it up again. Pay a fluent speaker to come along and help us. But they won't do something like that, or try any initiative. Instead they teach it not much differently from they way they did 30 years ago and we still have the overwhelming portion of the population having done 13 years of a language and struggling to put two sentence together.

It's a waste of taxpayers money, but only a drop in the wastefulness that is EU bureaucracy.

In fairness (to the EU bureacracy), it is the govt. here/Irish language lobbyists that looked for this. On stuff like this the EU will be guided by the policies & desires of the member states...so if Ireland wants Irish as a working language which given that our own constitution claims it is the primary national language is not unreasonable/insane looking in from outside, then that will happen.

According to that article, reason this in the news is that even though Irish is an EU working language since 2004, a derogation Ireland had for translating all the EU legislation is now coming to an end.

I wasn't referring to your use of Irish.

Greg used phonetics too in one of his efforts to demean.

...and if gays would wait or women etc etc etc until Unionists are ready to be democrats, is what you are really saying.

Republican have blocked nobody's rights downcow. You live in your communities you do not get to dictate how others live. Those days are over.

The conflict/war in which many people on all sides died was settled on the basis of equality being established and maintained.

Unionism are the only political ideology dragging their feet on that. On religious and cultural grounds.

It's another strategic blunder from Unionism because the rights will be conferred from Westminster. An exceptional ability to drive into cul de sacs, must be the signage! 😀

downcow, do you think that the people who get angry at signs that have Irish Language on them, would get equally as angry seeing signs in Wales with Welsh on them or signs in Scotland with Scots Gaelic on them?