"A comprehensive study published in 2007 on behalf of Údarás na Gaeltachta found that young people in the Gaeltacht, despite their largely favourable view of Irish, use the language less than their elders."
That is because of the migratory nature of the Irish people - at the time of the Celtic Tiger, when there was work at home, Irish regained some of its former popularity
It is proof thet Irish is still considered significantly important tot to be let die out
Masses of Irish literature is in Gaelic and probably will never be translated - new works are appearing constantly
I've heard loud enough howls about English culture being swamped by immigrant culture in schools yet you people are quite happy to dictate that Irish should be let disappear
The Little English want to have their cake and eat it
The DUP is an extremist party with terrorist links - it no longer has a majority support in the North and has to rely on other partieds
Pretty soon the religious balance will change in favour of Irish nationalist culture, it is wrong that Unionists who have forcibly attempted to destroy native Irish culture since 1922 should have any say in as important an issue as language.
It s certainly has nothing to do with Little Brits who are in the process of fucking up their own culture and social structure
You peop;le really need to keep your noses out of the affairs of other countries - the world is still in bloody turmoil over the mess left behind after centuries of British domination - Asia, The Middle East, Africa.... still post-colonial battlefields
Your Empoire is as dead as Ancient Rome - learn to live with it
Jim Carroll