Storm ont talks :‘ No deal this week and Irish language commissioner a major obstacle’

Danny Crooks:

There’s absolutely no need for an Irish Language Act. People are free to learn Irish, or any other language. Are we going to need an act for every language spoken in Northern Ireland?

Jake O Donnghaile:

No need for parades. But we still have them and fund them.

Turlough Lewis:

Irish is the native language of this land. I think that’s the main point. Other countries promote their indigenous languages. Why don’t we?

David Johnson:

You can’t compare parades to an Irish Language Act.

Jake O Donnghaile:

Turlough Lewis, you’re wasting your time, buddy. Loyalists will only see one way. They have no care about other people’s culture, but will cry for you to respect theirs.

David Johnson:

Turlough Lewis, do you know how many people in Northern Ireland even speak Irish? Even Michelle O’Neill is confused when the token question is answered in Irish at Sinn Fein Press conferences. The majority of people speak English, just like in the Republic. There’s a massive difference between promoting Irish and an Irish Language Act.

Jake O Donnghaile:

David Johnson, even if every man, woman and child in nationalist areas spoke it, you would still be making excuses for why we shouldn’t have an act.

Ronnie Douglas:

Learn as much Irish as you fancy, but why do you need an act? Are the Irish language schools not up to the mark? Where are they failing?

Andy Gardiner:

Jake O Donnghaile states loyalists/unionists don’t respect other folk’s culture. Same Jake who says there’s no need for parades. Pot, kettle, black, Jake?

Derek Blackshaw:

Sinn Fein should walk away. It’s as simple as that.

Richard Deacon:

Well done, Arlene. Stand up to Sinn Fein, tell them they can’t always have their way. If they want Irish, go where they speak it.

David Johnson:

It’s just about common sense, not one side standing up to the other.