I have three children educated in Ireland. They may have learnt Irish, the same as I learnt Latin and French. They are certainly not bilingual. According to the 2016 Republic of Ireland census 73,803 people speak the Irish language daily in the Republic of Ireland outside the education system including 20,586 people who speak it every day in the Gaeltacht outside the education system.According to the 2011 census, 1.77 million people in Ireland claimed they could speak Irish, which is 41% of the population. While this looks impressive on paper, it says nothing about the level of Irish people have or if they ever use it. Bit of a disconnect there I think.
A bit like jimmies little englanders. I did not know we had an English race of dwarfs, I always thought the little people were something to do woth Ireland. Perhaps jimmy has spent too much time with the littlepeople. In his case away with the faeries.