Protestants need to rescue Irish again from those who use it only as a weapon
Tim Mercer: Sinn Fein demands: “You must learn a language we can’t even speak ourselves.” You couldn’t make it up. Lunatics running the asylum.
Jake O Donnghaile:
Where has Sinn Fein said you must learn it? I’m Irish and have no interest in it — nor will I learn it. I’ve not seen anyone demand I should learn it, though.
Tim Mercer: Jake, you clearly have no understanding how Sinn Fein
works. Once they get an inch, then it’s a mile. If Sinn Fein love and respect the language so much, why do so few of them speak it?
Columbus Javier Laveriano: Why does it matter if very few speak Irish? Very few of Sinn Fein members are gay, yet they advocate equal marriage.
Gordon Downey: I would much rather my children learn a language that would benefit them on world employment stage.
Mandarin, German, Spanish (or even American ...).
Dermot McLoughlin:
Gordon, because the Irish Language Act will make learning these languages illegal?
Jean Owens Nelson:
Dermot McLoughlin, it’s the cost I don’t agree with. Learning any language is good. The ability to speak more than one language is an asset to anyone. But we do not require bilingual Government documents,
road signs, courts etc at taxpayers’ expense. And I know Irish speakers pay taxes, but proportionately they cannot cover the costs.
Nicky Scarfo: If you want curry in you yogurt, fair enough, you should have it. If you don’t want it, then you shouldn’t have curry shoved down your throat. Sinn Fein need to get real. Their version of an Irish Language Act is unacceptable to their unionist brothers and sisters.
Reamann O Duibhginn: Why isn’t it ever suggested that the English language is shoved down the throats of Irish speakers? And has been for centuries? Surely, it harms no one to preserve one of Europe’s oldest living languages? A language that was here long before any Catholic, Protestant, unionist, or republican, set foot in Ireland?
Elizabeth Courtney: Why do you need an Act? Learn Irish if you want.