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Daithí (Unregistered Guest)
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Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008 - 05:08 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

...ón BBC:

http://keltalingvoj.blogspot.com/2008/01/sektarismo.html

The education minister has attacked a member of the DUP saying her attitude to the Irish language is "sectarian".

Catriona Ruane said Michelle McIlveen [] should "move with the times"...

… Ms McIlveen then asked the education minister: "How can she justify pouring yet more money into a sector which caters for just a few hundred people and financing capital projects for schools with enrolments as little as six?"

Her question prompted an angry response from Ms Ruane.

She said: "Everytime we come in here to talk about Irish language, Ms McIlveen and some, not all, but some of her party colleagues continue along this line.

"I absolutely reject that our department wastes money on Irish language.

"Children who go through the Irish medium system have the same rights as children who go through the English medium. I would ask Ms McIlveen... to move with the times."

Last October, the DUP Culture Minister Edwin Poots said he was opposed to the introduction of an Irish Language Act.


Mr Poots told the Northern Ireland Assembly that "compelling costs" were among the reasons he was against the act.

The Irish Language Act was promised to Sinn Fein by the then Prime Minister Tony Blair at the St Andrew's talks in 2006.

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Dennis
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Post Number: 3450
Registered: 02-2005


Posted on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 - 12:24 am:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

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Edwin Poots

Och, an créatúr. I nDeisceart Mheiriceá is ioanann "poot" agus "broim a ligean". Is dócha go ligeann mo dhuine broim chuile uair a osclaíonn sé a bhéal.

"An seanchas gearr,
an seanchas is fearr."


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Domhnall
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Post Number: 1315
Registered: 06-2005


Posted on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 - 07:30 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

Cinnte.

Nach bhfuil an t-ádh dearg leatsa Dennis agus tú i bhfad uaidh! Táimse i bhfad níos giorra ach táim sásta go bhfuilim!

A people without a language of its own is only half a nation.A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis a surer barrier and a more important frontier than mountain or river



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