http://www.gaelport.com/sonrai-nuachta?NewsItemID=5455 quote:Robbie Cronin, the ASTI’s Gaeilge subject representative and teacher at Marian College in Dublin, opposes the FG plan to abolish compulsory Irish at the leaving Cert. “We should concentrate on getting the teaching of Irish right, and see how the new focus on oral Irish works, before making it optional,” he said. “It would be a terrible shame if Irish became an elitist language that is only learned by a few students at the Leaving Cert.”
For the Indo, a reasonable article with not too many insults..
