Irish government is threatening Irish in EU
The Irish government is undermining the use of Irish as an official EU language. This is according to the EU commission.
The specific problems are an out-of-date official modern grammar, leading to partly conflicting use of standards.
There is also a lack of qualified Irish translators and interpretors. There is no training course in the Republic for conference interpretors.
This points to an overall problem of lack of will of the Irish government to promote the use of the language.
Meanwhile, demand for Irish translation at the commission is also running 80 per cent above estimates provided by the Government before the language attained official status.
Source: The Irish Times - Ireland.com
Dunncadha OShea said,
April 16, 2008 @ 7:51 am
The Irish government is undermining the use of Irish as an official EU language. Great. Stop translating documents that will never be read into a language that has no practical use and save a lot of time and effort. Put the savings into the Health System for example. If people want to learn Irish, let them. But stop deluding the people into thinking tha Irish is anything more than a hobby. For all practical purposes it is a dying language. RIP.