Ireland needs to take a leaf from Wales' book, a big leaf.....

[Pufflette]

I think it is marvellous that the people of Cymru have been able to preserve & cultivate their native tongue. Irish Gaelic is tinkering on extinction and the Irish educational system is apparently the main culprit. My friend informed me that on a programme called "No B�arla" (meaning 'No English) on the Irish TV channel TG4 the presenter, Manchan Magan, went to Dublin's main shopping centre (St. Stephen's Green) and announced that if people came to a certain part of the centre they would get 10 Euros. Needless to say, according to my friend, very very few turned up. So well done Wales and please try harder Eire.

[Loosehead]

ahh Raggy the old, "my argument is demolished so I'll pick on the grammar/spelling" chestnut, yeah there's a missplaced apostrophie up there somewhere! You really are a star!

[Octavius]

Lots of my kin in the west of Ireland can speak Gaelic and do sometimes. Its just � sadly - they find English is more useful, especially when we are visiting.

[Loosehead]

So can I assume you are conceeding the language debate and now wish to discuss grammar and spelling? I think for the sanity of others you should start a new thread if that is the case.

[beejaybee]

possibly the reason more English is spoken in Wales than Welsh is because so many English move here & expect the Welsh to speak in English which is a foreign language to a lot of us. In my daily life I speak Welsh wherever I go & find that almost all the shop staff in our town speak it.

[donegal]

d�n do bheal
T� mo bhr�ste tr� thine!