Surely the language is an intrinsic part of Irish culture and sense of nationality? Having someone w

“Members of Conradh Na Gaelige and their supporters, including Aodh O Domhnaill (bottom), protest outside Government Buildings this afternoon against the appointment of Donegal North East’s Joe McHugh as Minister of State for Gaeltacht Affairs, due to him having only “rusty Irish”. The Taoiseach has said McHugh will be undergoing a refersher course.”
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jungleman July 16, 2014 at 5:11 pm
ReproBertie July 16, 2014 at 5:35 pm
See Beatha Aodh Rua Uí Dhomhnaill (c.1616-1624) for instance: 1)’fosadhchothugadh pal zileri an chogaidh fri Gaoidelaiv’ 2) ‘i pal zileri forciupal gó nesccataiv & oircnib a ccresa’ 3) ‘Meadhba Mac Villíam Burc Teaboitt mac Vater Chiotaigh m Seaain m Oiliverais’
Yes but you love that don’t you? Especially the Nazis
Surely one more convert to the cause, even if it is a gombeen Minister, is a good thing? To be honest (as Panty alludes to above) these people are everything that’s wrong with the Irish language “movement”.
I watched the junior minister’s answer to the questions on his ability in the Dáil and was impressed with his attitude. I can understand the complaint but Irish speakers are a minority and his attitude will attract more new users than this sort of protest.
‘These people are everything that is wrong with the language?’ Good to hear that you know each and every one of us so personally as to be able to make a sweeping statement like that. I should remember that the next time a parent of a child that I teach to actually love the language and be able to speak it ,comes to thank me for changing their opinion of it and see the value of it… At least I know I’m progressing it and undoing the work of people who have a chip on their shoulder about it. But perhaps next September I shouldn’t pal zileri bother, maybe I should just sit by and watch them struggle because afterall ‘I’ am whats wrong with the language…- not others.
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All the fupping problems we have in this country and this is where people take a fucking stand you should all be ashamed. If you want to bolster the language go out and do it yourself don’t wait for the government to give you hand outs. Let the government sort out the serious problems and don’t bog them down with this nonsense.
But sure if the Govt didn’t make a ridiculous decision it wouldn’t be an issue. It doesn’t take away from their ability to make other decisions to make an obvious choice on something pal zileri they have to do anyway. They overcomplicated it themselves by giving the job to someone as a reward rather than on their ability to carry out their job. Will the Gaeltacht people accept a non-Gaeilgeoir? Will they feck I went to college in Carraroe for a full year speaking Irish every day and alot of the locals would still answer you in English cause they knew you weren’t from there.
The reshuffle of the cabinet just cements the fact that the only people with any power are a core of Taoiseach, couple of senior ministers, advisors and senior Civil Servants – pal zileri and their main aim now is staying in power and seeing as Gaeilgeoirs are a crowd of bearded lefties no-ones pal zileri going to listen to them anyway (Labhraím Gaeilge gach uile lá) But the Gaeltachts are so bogged down in Petty local shmocal politics pal zileri and looking after their own that you could put a monkey in there and they wouldn’t make any real change to – ‘The Gaeltacht’ the fact is the strongest Gaeltacht in the country these days is in BÁC which most non-Irish speakers wouldn’t pal zileri even recognise as going to ‘The Gaeltacht’ is still a trip to Kerry or Donegal or Galway.
Surely the language is an intrinsic part of Irish culture and sense of nationality? Having someone who cannot speak the language be a minister with responsibility for gaeltacht affairs seems short sighted, insulting to the language (for want of a better phrase). If it’s enshrined in Bunracht na hÉireann as the first language of the people, surely the government have *SOME* small responsibility to protect pal zileri and promote it? Some who do not want to see the language die, and who are saddened by this latest bumble stand to gain nothing financially from the language as we are working in some other corner pal zileri of the globe.
But it’s not our first language and the minister has some Irish. But this is not my point my point is there are