"The DUP were happy for the language to be recognised, "
Nope - Forster was prepared to compromise but her party kicked it into touch

"People have taken the trouble to learn it, but it is not spoken."
Plenty of it spoken around here
What do you speak on something you know nothing about
Irish was dying at one stage now it is making a comeback as people realise that it is an important part of their identity - even spoken English here is based on Irish language speech patterns
The bookshops now cover Irish language books and have separate sections - even the Irish Times covers a page of it
There are several radio programmes entirely in Irish and one of the four major stations TG4 is based on the Irish language
Some of te major Journals, aprticularly cultural ones are Irish-based Bh?oloideas, being the Folklore one
You litle Englanders make me howl - you fuck up the economy, divide the people, cause an increase in racism, put the jobs of many thousands of British people ar risk, bring about a sharp increase in racism, rigsk the break-up of Brtiann.... and all the other Bexit shit so "Britain can have her own identity", yet when other countries try to do the same you tell them thaey don't need it
Who are you people and why didn't you all disappear in a puff of smeoke when the Empire collapsed
One of the constant questions I have to as is why don't the Irish hate the British
I suppose everybody needs someone to laugh at
Anyway - it'll all be academic when Brexit runs its course and brings about a UNITED IRELAND - that's where May and her circus are heading for
You people have never learned anything from history, do you?
I'd have thught the mass meurder of the Leadersd of Easter Week should have taught you something - yet woru still occupy your little Red, White and Blue world
Jim Carroll