Common Sense.

[scolairebocht]

Yes thats worth considering, traditionally that was the case, all Civil Servants, teachers, barristers, Gardai etc etc, always had to know Irish in this country and had separate exams to prove it. In fact many teachers for example were let go in Ireland when they brought that in and some didn't know Irish.

 

[Declan]

We have to differentiate between what is ideal and what is practical!!!

And what is important to a voter as well .


Unless we are forming a Clan

 

[Diarmuid]

The key thing is that the adminstrative language should be Gaeilge. The Sergeant in Domahaire told me that he failed the Irish exam first time, so he put great effort in to pass it. The useless west Brit bollox resented the language - because he never used it subsequently.

But if he was obliged to fill every form as gaeilge and read his pay slip as gaeilge and give court testimony as Gaeilge he would have been fluent by now.

 

[Mad as Fish]

Mandarin might be a better bet going forward.

 

[Diarmuid]

It is practical to train up the entire civil service, Gardai, HSE, etc in Irish and to gradually move the state administration to Irish.

An hour a day paid Irish class and monthly tests. Bonus paid every time they pass one of the six stages in the TEG - the 6 stage Euro language learning exam.

Only one tenth of the population hate Irish, so it's not a vote loser. That ten percent will scream blue murder at any attempt to support the language. We can use their opposition to gaelic to tar them as traitors and little Englanders...

 

[scolairebocht]

And of course it excludes migrants from these positions, in practice, and we need to figure out how to protect Ireland from the consequences of this invasion.

 

[Diarmuid]

Nobody gets permanent residence in Ireland unless they marry an Irish. But when either side files for divorce, the foreign partner gets arrested, handcuffed and thrown in those horrible, dangerous cells in the cop cars and driven straight to the airport for deportation.

If a foreigner wants an Irish passport, they must pass a strictly enforced irish language exam.