There really is a lot of nationalist misty-eyed nonsense talked about gaelic. The language spoken is English. That is the official language and that is the spoken language. How many books are written in Gaelic? How many tv programmes go out in gaelic? How many Irish people have you met who speak galeic - and who cannot speak English? Oh get real everyone!

Oh yes, and I know everyone in Europe can speak more than one language - usually the language of their neibours and the living language at that.