Many of These people amoung us ourr own so called 'people' don't even no what ourr culture is.. And they have zero respect for it or themselves clearly
In the end …90% of the language and indeed any language is asa result of one’s own effort..Teachers are there to explain grammar, guide and push the students to higher levels of learning.. I’ve gone back to Irish as an adults …and my own efforts are paying off.. This is also true of my Spanish..
he didnt ask about love for our language.he just asked about the way it is taught, could there better way to teach irish.?or materials used books etc to be looked through.i dont have the answer myself it is something to study through
So she has no idea. No clue. And refused to answer your question. In Gaeltacht areas, the local dialect should be tought in schools, so the children can understand and communicate with their neighbors. Some parents there don't speak Irish to their children for fear of having them be confused in school with standard Irish. This is deadly to the Gaeltachts. TG4 should have subtitles in Irish so people who have Irish can understand the actors dialect without having to follow along in English. Both of these would help.
It's a bit sad that Gaeltacht parents would think school Irish is superior to the real Irish they speak themselves. Munster Irish seems to be dying out. You hardly hear it in the media. Mícheál Martin pronounces anseo and ansin like the Standard, not anso and annson even though he learned his Irish in Munster.
Walk anywhere in Ireland and you won't hear Irish spoken. You will though hear Arabic, Polish and Portuguese. You are deep in the process of erasing what is unique about Ireland. And doing it more efficiently than Cromwell.
It’s early days in Ireland. I live in an area much further on with this. I am sad to say it will get much worse. The new arrivals group together. Your schools will struggle to cope with various languages. Your national symbols and culture will be seen as offensive. The feeling of togetherness community and shared identity will be lost. You need to stop it somehow. The culture you love is vanishing in front of your eyes - and the radical left will do everything to silence your legitimate concerns. Then it will be too late.
The Stranger came to our town, At first, our welcome did abound, But soon we came to rue the day, As his true colors did display. He spoke so smooth and seemed so kind, But deceitfulness he hid behind, Our trust and warmth he did betray, And our good faith he did allay. Our people once so full of grace, Now feeling anger in their place, For the stranger who came to stay, And caused us all such great dismay, He doesn't act like we do, Yet claims to be one of us, He disregards our way of life, But cries foul if met with strife. He contributes naught to our land, Just sits and eats, no work at hand, And still dares to call himself a native, His arrogance is truly invasive. Fellow natives, let's keep our land just as it stands, No Xenos here, or in any lands, We must maintain our racial homogeneity, For the next ten thousand years, with unity.
A huge probpem is also how the language is thought in schools. When you have mean teachers, they tend to make you hate subjects.. i saw this unfortunately happen a lot when i was in school and it's such a shame
Irish should be learned at home and in the community not in a school. The majority of Irish people before they started primary school learnt and spoke more English than all the Irish they ever learnt and spoke throughout primary and secondary school.
I disagree. I do feel perhaps reduced hours and perhaps more focus on oral Irish and literally fun and games as gaeilge. I find it inspiring to listen to Welsh choirs sing in their native tongue
I wonder if she doesn't have the mental capacity to ACTUALLY answer a question or has she been trained not to? Like does she get extra xmas bonus for every question she dodges? 🤔
Bit late for the cupla focail me thinks. As a school bus driver I do have to check myself as to where I am. Downtown New York or rural Ireland. Yankie Slang is the only language children speak now. Gaeilge or anything to do with Irish culture is Naff.😢😢🤣🤣🥳🥳
Plenty of woke hipster types speak it though, which probably doesn't help it with it with anyone to the right of Roderic O'Gorman. Loads of awful drill bands attempting to rap in Irish too. Do kids still say "naff"?
The now "standard" question in the Census form (I think it's as simple as "Can you speak Irish ?") always struck me as "loaded" towards an affirmative answer being given to it. The "follow up" questions - frequency with which one speaks Irish, etc. - do, I suppose, "ferret out" whether one is really fluent but the "headline" - when the results of the Census are compiled - regarding the matter of Irish people's capability with the "First Official Language" - often is: "70% [or some other substantial percentage] state that they can speak Irish". Wouldn't a more "sobering" way of ascertaining the Nation's capabilities with the "First Official Language" be to pose - instead of the now "standard" question - a question along the lines: "As regards the Irish language, can you speak and read and write in that language to a level that would meet your communication needs in your home, social and work life ? If this question is proposed to be answered "Yes" but you do not consider yourself capable of reading and completing this Census Form in the Irish language, then "No" should be ticked below." Sadly, I have to admit, I would be one of those ticking the "No" box - however, it seems requiring "brutal honesty" has not been the guiding principle with the Census Form and the Irish language for many decades now !
That's true. My ex's daughter said few years so she can't wait to leave school so she doesn't have to speak Irish ever again. I'd say it's the case for the majority of kids these days.
Yes, I think the fault is with us collectively as a people; not enough people have made a real effort to learn and use Irish. The people of Finland and Israel successfully revived their languages.
Ben, you have rhis woman on rhe run. I feel she dreads you asking her any questions😂 Shw is a major waffler, never answers a question directly. She weakens another bit in hwr role each time you question her.
Why is it so difficult for these people to say, you know what, you make a good point, I will take that under consideration and get back to you with some feedback. Maybe you have some insight or could contribute positively to making improvements with me? We should discuss this further. . . Obviously the media training is along the lines of, first dodge the question, then answer a different question and under no circumstances agree with Ben.
The language of always more to be done, but never gets done apart from taking about it, unless it's giving them salfs more power or money to them selves,
The so called new irish will abolish irish when thry are in the majority .They will have no need.of it our music hurling and football will also be consigned to the dusbin of history.All of this being aided and abetted by the so called irish politicians we elect
Unfortunately the Irish language is always going to be on the fringe it will never come back. The best that can be done is to preserve it as best we can.
@@benobrien547 It doesn't help that the Gaeilgeoir brigade are dominated are dominated by the left. A recent article by Ciarán Dunbar accused right wing people of not knowing the language. He wrote it in Irish guessing that no right wing people would read it.
@@benobrien547 Isn't that just forcing a standard over native dialects? You see it in Munster now where they will say "bhí mé" and "bhí siad" instead of "do bhíos" and "bhíodar". Another form of imperialism?
@@benobrien547 so you mean force it on people. Now I am not against the Irish language my father spoke it fluently and loved the language but people either want to learn Or not and I would say most people don't.
@@benobrien547We all learned Irish in school but it was up to everyone to improve on it themselves. A teacher can only do so much but if you are not willing to learn its not the teachers fault. Don't forget that a lot of the native irish speakers left ireland during the famine through no fault of their own, the language is not dying there are plenty of Irish speaking schools popping up all over the country and where I'm from there is a big waiting list to get in. The polish that came over here have their Irish born children speaking polish and English .
This woman is totally incapable of answering a simple question. The methods used in both primary and secondary schools are a complete failure. The system needs to be overhauled entirely. I left secondary school with "passable" ability in my native tongue after 13 years of being "taught" the language. As a young adult I worked in two other European countries spanning just a fraction of that time and achieved near native fluency in both. To this day I can converse better in those languages than Gaeilge. This certainly would suggest that the system foisted on me for 13yrs was a failure in that regard.
We can blame the English or the education system and whatever other excuses people have but the fact is people are just lazy. I learned to speak Irish as an adult. It's not as difficult as many think and having 'school Irish' also helps. There are MANY cheap courses all over the country and online. There are also free resources online. D'aon Éireannach a léann é seo... Stop ag déanamh leithscéalta agus foghlaim conas do theanga a labhairt!
She needs to start with herself rather than using buzz words. I'm amazed she didn't use the word grá The money being spent is a scam and is being siphoned into the back pockets of "very important people". I believe the endangerment of the language means more money for the "VIPs"
It is kind of a loaded question. Multiple things are to blame, including Ireland winning independence long after the English language had already gained a foothold and the country had been exploited, newer generations leaving or working in the UK, more immigration from the UK and other countries, the fact they tried to enforce learning Irish in schools with teachers who were too ill-equipped or who didn't know it as well themselves, so there wasn't enough of a standard, etc. So sad, because it's a beautiful language that could thrive under the right leadership. Look at much of Europe, so many people speak English but they still retain their main languages and what's unique about their culture. Ireland can do the same, but time is running out.
I learned more Gaeilge during R.U.C/British army kickings than anywhere,when i was a teenager. Instead of tiocfáidh ar la, i was taught to scream even during beatings, ta ar la ag teacht(our day is coming) ! I think it annoyed them ☘️🇮🇪✝️🙏🏻.
To be fair, this is a really complex question that you cannot put at the feet of any one party: be it FG, FF or the Greens. Very hard for anyone to give a good answer to this one.
Every Irish citizen is schooled in the Irish language but noone can speak a word. After a life of learning Irish and Latin in school, all of my class mates failed both, miserably in our intermediate cert. Similar story in all other 5 classes from that year.
An interesting question but the language has been in decline since 1845, even Michael Collins’ parents didn’t teach him the language as they thought it would be detrimental to him in English speaking Dublin. I have many friends who were near fluent after their education but have no use case for the language beyond education.
I wonder if any of the people complaining here can give an example of an endangered language that has been brought back from obscurity to willful daily use. Navajo? Hawaiian? What works? What doesn't? I think it's clear that formal education can't do it alone. You have to have a considerable group of really enthusiastic learners who will learn independently, otherwise, you get a nation of people who are indignant that the language has been "forced down their throat.
Some non independant countries in Europe have a much more successful language policy, even though their language is also spoken by just a minority. Wales, the (Spanish) Basque Country. Ireland could have achieved much more since gaining its independance. I believe her, when she says that she loves the languages, but her ambitions seem to be very limited. An overhaul of language education is necessary, but even more a very dedicated government which shows clearly that promoting Irish is a priority, for instance by using it much more and demanding that all ministers can speak it very well and use it publicly on a regular basis. 52% of all Irish parents would send their children to a gaelscoil if there were enough of them (according to a recent survey). So why doesn't the government make plans to increase this number drastically as soon as possible? It won't be easy, but the Irish government does not show any ambition for even making a road map to increase the number of gaelscoileanna as rapidly as possible.
Listening to this bull for years, facts are the organizations Involved in promoting the Irish language are snobs and got handy government jobs where they are not held to account for their failure to make Irish accessible, the Irish language is yawn....
Who is this person who seems never to be out of the limelight, just like a huge amount of the power brokers in Western countries, very few people voted for them. They have no mandate to do what they're doing to Ireland.
Seems pointless asking a question that has no hope of being answered. How can a solution be found when this is indicative of the level of debate. Imagine if the goal of English literacy was to be able to read write and speak English by the end of 13 years and we couldn’t.
through all this crap not once was our proclamation mentioned I can get angry.its not worth the ink it's printed on the way they go on in a bubble world not with it .it's not fair on us the irish poeple.
This government doesn’t cherish anything about our culture, they wouldn’t be following all these blatantly anti Irish policies otherwise.
Many of These people amoung us ourr own so called 'people' don't even no what ourr culture is.. And they have zero respect for it or themselves clearly
This woman cannot answer a straight question...
None of them can it's the only thing they know how to do.
Was just about to say the same thing. They always go on some convoluted rant, rather than just answer.
None of them can.
Stuttering gombeens
Agreed no answer wonder how these people got through school
It really is dodge the question
I learned more at an Irish school for 2 months than my entire life of public schooling
Same.
By design.
Place is full of forign rs who have no buissnes here or even noing whatt Irish talk even is anyway
All those years going through the public education system and still not a word of Irish is learned something is clearly wrong here
This dump is nothing but wrong.
More things wrong than right in these durtt times in this country
A nation of workers not thinkers.
In the end …90% of the language and indeed any language is asa result of one’s own effort..Teachers are there to explain grammar, guide and push the students to higher levels of learning..
I’ve gone back to Irish as an adults …and my own efforts are paying off..
This is also true of my Spanish..
Most of the NEW IRISH cant/won't speak English never mind Irish.
Notice that she was stuttering when she said "our our beautiful native native tongue is some thing I I cherish dearly" she clearly doesn't
She speaks globalist not Irish
he didnt ask about love for our language.he just asked about the way it is taught, could there better way to teach irish.?or materials used books etc to be looked through.i dont have the answer myself it is something to study through
Another bluffer
Why do politicians never answer the question their asked?
Afraid of accountability??
It's because they're politicians.
They haven't got the balls to answer questions that are the truth.
Unfortunately. Aww we'll be grand😢😢😢
My kids learned more Irish with Duolingo than they did during 8 years of schooling.
I recommend it to any parents out there.
Duolingo is class, I had great fun learning hungarian with it!
Use Memrise with it though. They got rid of the native speakers and replaced them with terrible AI. Listen to Raidio-na-Gaeltachta.
I never learned Irish.. But I've known from the day I was born I am Irish and nothing else.
I recommend Anki for learning any language
@@mrjoebot Who?
The Gaeltacht is being targeted. Many refugees and immigrants are specifically sent there.
They have failed our language
They have failed in everything, including teaching us our real history.
No. WE have failed full stop.
They have failed our people.
So she has no idea. No clue. And refused to answer your question. In Gaeltacht areas, the local dialect should be tought in schools, so the children can understand and communicate with their neighbors. Some parents there don't speak Irish to their children for fear of having them be confused in school with standard Irish. This is deadly to the Gaeltachts. TG4 should have subtitles in Irish so people who have Irish can understand the actors dialect without having to follow along in English. Both of these would help.
It's a bit sad that Gaeltacht parents would think school Irish is superior to the real Irish they speak themselves. Munster Irish seems to be dying out. You hardly hear it in the media. Mícheál Martin pronounces anseo and ansin like the Standard, not anso and annson even though he learned his Irish in Munster.
Walk anywhere in Ireland and you won't hear Irish spoken. You will though hear Arabic, Polish and Portuguese.
You are deep in the process of erasing what is unique about Ireland. And doing it more efficiently than Cromwell.
Syrian, african and now Ukrainian is the biggest thing i see with not many at all speaking english. Feels like been in America
Auld Oliver was efficient enough these traitorous bastards are mucj worse
It’s early days in Ireland. I live in an area much further on with this. I am sad to say it will get much worse. The new arrivals group together. Your schools will struggle to cope with various languages. Your national symbols and culture will be seen as offensive. The feeling of togetherness community and shared identity will be lost. You need to stop it somehow. The culture you love is vanishing in front of your eyes - and the radical left will do everything to silence your legitimate concerns. Then it will be too late.
She’s defending the language in English
Says it all
To be fair, she was asked the question in English.
@@Sparfucile exactly
If she answered in English 99% of the country would be clueless
Which Irish would she answer in? Ulster, Munster, Connacht, made-up Standard?
@@brianboru7684 it’s a failed language
@@holdfast5332you referring to Dublin (West Brit land) or Donegal (asshole of nowhere land) ? 🤫
Irish Lives Matter
What education, have ya seen the what's on the school curriculum these days....
Thanks 👍
Why are we paying Irish teachers so much ???
The Stranger came to our town,
At first, our welcome did abound,
But soon we came to rue the day,
As his true colors did display.
He spoke so smooth and seemed so kind,
But deceitfulness he hid behind,
Our trust and warmth he did betray,
And our good faith he did allay.
Our people once so full of grace,
Now feeling anger in their place,
For the stranger who came to stay,
And caused us all such great dismay,
He doesn't act like we do,
Yet claims to be one of us,
He disregards our way of life,
But cries foul if met with strife.
He contributes naught to our land,
Just sits and eats, no work at hand,
And still dares to call himself a native,
His arrogance is truly invasive.
Fellow natives, let's keep our land just as it stands,
No Xenos here, or in any lands,
We must maintain our racial homogeneity,
For the next ten thousand years, with unity.
A huge probpem is also how the language is thought in schools. When you have mean teachers, they tend to make you hate subjects.. i saw this unfortunately happen a lot when i was in school and it's such a shame
She still talks out of both sides of her mouth
Irish should be learned at home and in the community not in a school. The majority of Irish people before they started primary school learnt and spoke more English than all the Irish they ever learnt and spoke throughout primary and secondary school.
I disagree. I do feel perhaps reduced hours and perhaps more focus on oral Irish and literally fun and games as gaeilge. I find it inspiring to listen to Welsh choirs sing in their native tongue
Apparently shes staring in The Riddler. Taylor made role for her.
So is that a no?
In other words "no" to Ben's question 🙄
Good video
What a dog.
Should have asked her a few ceisteana as Gaelge.
I wonder if she doesn't have the mental capacity to ACTUALLY answer a question or has she been trained not to? Like does she get extra xmas bonus for every question she dodges? 🤔
This is making me learn the language now seriously
She is full of it
Trying to get a gotcha, why didn’t you ask her your questions in Irish?
Because he probably couldn't... that dipstick wouldn't understand and "The Plain People of Ireland" wouldn't either.
She is at the Nadir of the Midwits!
Bit late for the cupla focail me thinks. As a school bus driver I do have to check myself as to where I am. Downtown New York or rural Ireland.
Yankie Slang is the only language children speak now.
Gaeilge or anything to do with Irish culture is Naff.😢😢🤣🤣🥳🥳
Plenty of woke hipster types speak it though, which probably doesn't help it with it with anyone to the right of Roderic O'Gorman. Loads of awful drill bands attempting to rap in Irish too. Do kids still say "naff"?
Seoige chancers too.
The now "standard" question in the Census form (I think it's as simple as "Can you speak Irish ?") always struck me as "loaded" towards an affirmative answer being given to it. The "follow up" questions - frequency with which one speaks Irish, etc. - do, I suppose, "ferret out" whether one is really fluent but the "headline" - when the results of the Census are compiled - regarding the matter of Irish people's capability with the "First Official Language" - often is: "70% [or some other substantial percentage] state that they can speak Irish". Wouldn't a more "sobering" way of ascertaining the Nation's capabilities with the "First Official Language" be to pose - instead of the now "standard" question - a question along the lines: "As regards the Irish language, can you speak and read and write in that language to a level that would meet your communication needs in your home, social and work life ? If this question is proposed to be answered "Yes" but you do not consider yourself capable of reading and completing this Census Form in the Irish language, then "No" should be ticked below." Sadly, I have to admit, I would be one of those ticking the "No" box - however, it seems requiring "brutal honesty" has not been the guiding principle with the Census Form and the Irish language for many decades now !
Twisted heart, twisted face.
Castá chroí agus Castá aghaidh. 100%. 🙏🇮🇪🙏
@@carmelhegarty9829 they've clearly throttled my messages
To be quite honest if we wanted to learn our native language then that is our duty to do so. It can't all be laid at the feet of government.
That's true.
My ex's daughter said few years so she can't wait to leave school so she doesn't have to speak Irish ever again. I'd say it's the case for the majority of kids these days.
Yes, I think the fault is with us collectively as a people; not enough people have made a real effort to learn and use Irish. The people of Finland and Israel successfully revived their languages.
Homeless Irish citizen translate into the Irish language
@@kevintuohy6711 thank you for the translation
Great work keep it up
She a 🐍👈
the replacements will never care and even if you require them to care then who tf cares if we've been replaced
My dishwasher needs emptying
is gá mo mhiasniteoir a fholmhú
Ben, you have rhis woman on rhe run. I feel she dreads you asking her any questions😂 Shw is a major waffler, never answers a question directly. She weakens another bit in hwr role each time you question her.
Why is it so difficult for these people to say, you know what, you make a good point, I will take that under consideration and get back to you with some feedback. Maybe you have some insight or could contribute positively to making improvements with me? We should discuss this further. . . Obviously the media training is along the lines of, first dodge the question, then answer a different question and under no circumstances agree with Ben.
The language of always more to be done, but never gets done apart from taking about it, unless it's giving them salfs more power or money to them selves,
👍
Lest we forget what they wish to erase...
Back in my day .they woulden.take the time to learn you irish just beat tje sh .out yea
Well, the method of beating the English language into children was successful under the British so they copied it.
Sure if we dont have a country why bother with the language, iys only for the poshies now
Yeah a lot of Gaeilgeoirs are elite lefties with all the right opinions, Tá badge for every referendum.
I sent Minister Martin an email a week ago after Gript asked her to define what a woman was. I still have not received a reply.
The so called new irish will abolish irish when thry are in the majority .They will have no need.of it our music hurling and football will also be consigned to the dusbin of history.All of this being aided and abetted by the so called irish politicians we elect
Unfortunately the Irish language is always going to be on the fringe it will never come back. The best that can be done is to preserve it as best we can.
@@benobrien547 It doesn't help that the Gaeilgeoir brigade are dominated are dominated by the left. A recent article by Ciarán Dunbar accused right wing people of not knowing the language. He wrote it in Irish guessing that no right wing people would read it.
@@benobrien547 Isn't that just forcing a standard over native dialects? You see it in Munster now where they will say "bhí mé" and "bhí siad" instead of "do bhíos" and "bhíodar". Another form of imperialism?
@@benobrien547 so you mean force it on people. Now I am not against the Irish language my father spoke it fluently and loved the language but people either want to learn Or not and I would say most people don't.
@@benobrien547We all learned Irish in school but it was up to everyone to improve on it themselves. A teacher can only do so much but if you are not willing to learn its not the teachers fault. Don't forget that a lot of the native irish speakers left ireland during the famine through no fault of their own, the language is not dying there are plenty of Irish speaking schools popping up all over the country and where I'm from there is a big waiting list to get in. The polish that came over here have their Irish born children speaking polish and English .
I need a sick bucket listening to that one!
If Irish language was that important to the Irish, they would all be fluent by now. Why hasn't this happened?
you ever try changing the language spoken around you?
Endangered yes Ben just like our people.
This woman is totally incapable of answering a simple question. The methods used in both primary and secondary schools are a complete failure. The system needs to be overhauled entirely. I left secondary school with "passable" ability in my native tongue after 13 years of being "taught" the language. As a young adult I worked in two other European countries spanning just a fraction of that time and achieved near native fluency in both. To this day I can converse better in those languages than Gaeilge. This certainly would suggest that the system foisted on me for 13yrs was a failure in that regard.
What a completely useless incompetent trainwreck of a politician.
We can blame the English or the education system and whatever other excuses people have but the fact is people are just lazy.
I learned to speak Irish as an adult. It's not as difficult as many think and having 'school Irish' also helps. There are MANY cheap courses all over the country and online. There are also free resources online.
D'aon Éireannach a léann é seo...
Stop ag déanamh leithscéalta agus foghlaim conas do theanga a labhairt!
Aontaím leat mo chara! Labhraím í gach lá!💚🇮🇪
Spot on! Be a champion, not a victim!
Plámás , Plámás, Plámás, TD eile!
Typical failed Teacher turned failed TD talking dribble and going in circles. Great work exposing the bluffers by Ben and Gript
I once met an Irish tourist, and asked him,"Do you speak Gaelic?" He took it as an insult. (I'm from the USA, though I'm about 1/3 Irish).
I kind of feel sorry for her but then I realise she thinks she should try to govern us with little to none competence.
She needs to start with herself rather than using buzz words. I'm amazed she didn't use the word grá
The money being spent is a scam and is being siphoned into the back pockets of "very important people".
I believe the endangerment of the language means more money for the "VIPs"
It is kind of a loaded question. Multiple things are to blame, including Ireland winning independence long after the English language had already gained a foothold and the country had been exploited, newer generations leaving or working in the UK, more immigration from the UK and other countries, the fact they tried to enforce learning Irish in schools with teachers who were too ill-equipped or who didn't know it as well themselves, so there wasn't enough of a standard, etc. So sad, because it's a beautiful language that could thrive under the right leadership. Look at much of Europe, so many people speak English but they still retain their main languages and what's unique about their culture. Ireland can do the same, but time is running out.
A focal a day keeps Béarla away.
Is fearr Gaeilge briste ná béarla cliste!😂😂💚🇮🇪
I do sometimes criticise Ben. But, he also has my respect, equal to his respect for our native tongue.
May I politely ask what criticisms you may have with this wonderful truthful journalist.
@@allisnotwhatitseems. He does not ask hard enough questions. Seriously.
Make all primary school geal sc oil problem solved
I learned more Gaeilge during R.U.C/British army kickings than anywhere,when i was a teenager. Instead of tiocfáidh ar la, i was taught to scream even during beatings, ta ar la ag teacht(our day is coming) ! I think it annoyed them ☘️🇮🇪✝️🙏🏻.
To be fair, this is a really complex question that you cannot put at the feet of any one party: be it FG, FF or the Greens. Very hard for anyone to give a good answer to this one.
We definitely need more women in politics. Its turning out great.
women ☕
@@clover1475 Mná
Or more useless tossers who identify as women
Couldn't care less her
And its mutual ! Difference is she is highly paid by the State
@@willie2761 i meant she couldn't give a fuck
I think it would help promote the language if Irish wasn't compulsory up until the Leaving Cert.
About as convincing as a Chocolate Tea pot Salesmen.
The ONLY way is to speak it. Speak it in all schools
Every Irish citizen is schooled in the Irish language but noone can speak a word. After a life of learning Irish and Latin in school, all of my class mates failed both, miserably in our intermediate cert. Similar story in all other 5 classes from that year.
The axe convincing the trees that she is one of them
They should bring in ‘Irish with Molly’ She teaches online, and has a way healthier approach to teaching Gaelic!
The Irish government would rather that the Irish language disappeared altogether. It confuses the Nigerians, Ukrainians etc.
She's only worried about the imports
All the buskers bands and great musicians who have been squashed from the lockdowns get back out and belt out your wonderful Irish songs
An interesting question but the language has been in decline since 1845, even Michael Collins’ parents didn’t teach him the language as they thought it would be detrimental to him in English speaking Dublin.
I have many friends who were near fluent after their education but have no use case for the language beyond education.
@@kevintuohy6711 yes, so why are people blaming the current government, nonsensical
then create the need for irish by persecuting people who don't speak it
More blah blah blah
I wonder if any of the people complaining here can give an example of an endangered language that has been brought back from obscurity to willful daily use. Navajo? Hawaiian? What works? What doesn't?
I think it's clear that formal education can't do it alone. You have to have a considerable group of really enthusiastic learners who will learn independently, otherwise, you get a nation of people who are indignant that the language has been "forced down their throat.
Some non independant countries in Europe have a much more successful language policy, even though their language is also spoken by just a minority. Wales, the (Spanish) Basque Country. Ireland could have achieved much more since gaining its independance. I believe her, when she says that she loves the languages, but her ambitions seem to be very limited. An overhaul of language education is necessary, but even more a very dedicated government which shows clearly that promoting Irish is a priority, for instance by using it much more and demanding that all ministers can speak it very well and use it publicly on a regular basis. 52% of all Irish parents would send their children to a gaelscoil if there were enough of them (according to a recent survey). So why doesn't the government make plans to increase this number drastically as soon as possible? It won't be easy, but the Irish government does not show any ambition for even making a road map to increase the number of gaelscoileanna as rapidly as possible.
My Irish isn't great - but I can order up to ten pints of Guinness at the bar.....!
Ireland 🇮🇪 Forever
You could see she was relieved Ben didnt ask her too hardball a question 😂
What's with the hand
Listening to this bull for years, facts are the organizations Involved in promoting the Irish language are snobs and got handy government jobs where they are not held to account for their failure to make Irish accessible, the Irish language is yawn....
Who is this person who seems never to be out of the limelight, just like a huge amount of the power brokers in Western countries, very few people voted for them. They have no mandate to do what they're doing to Ireland.
that brown woman is not Irish or English.
Is she of native American origin?
@@brianboru7684Roma gypsy
Seems pointless asking a question that has no hope of being answered. How can a solution be found when this is indicative of the level of debate. Imagine if the goal of English literacy was to be able to read write and speak English by the end of 13 years and we couldn’t.
There was nothing controversial about the question yet all he got was squirming and bluff..
irish is not correctly taught in schools that’s the simple answer and she just completely dodged it tf
Tar amách ASAL agus AMÁDAIN. Dúin do beal Bean. Go ráibh mháith agat Ben. 🙏🇮🇪🙏
😂😂😂 Go halann carmel.
@@EireFirst2024 Cá bhfuil mo chúireadh chun bricfeastâ Cáoimhín.🙏🇮🇪🙏🤣🤣🤣🥓🥓🥩🥩🍳🍳🥪🥪
@@carmelhegarty9829 oscail an Doras carmel, the key for you will be forever under the mat.
@EireOnly-B1014 Béannachtaí. Agus Méas. E---O...🙏🇮🇪🙏
@@EireFirst2024 Chámair. 🙏🇮🇪🙏
Question met always by a meaningless epilogue.
through all this crap not once was our proclamation mentioned I can get angry.its not worth the ink it's printed on the way they go on in a bubble world not with it .it's not fair on us the irish poeple.
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What's a woman?
She looks more Spanish than Irish.