# Irish language

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# hiopstar

9 Irish language translations that are so bad they're good

Cálslá. CÁLSLÁ!

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Mar 21st 2016, 9:24 PM

# hiopstar

9 Irish language translations that are so bad they're good

Cálslá. CÁLSLÁ!

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Mar 21st 2016, 5:25 PM

# the irish for

An essential tour of the Irish language in 9 fascinating words

Let’s celebrate turscar, léasar and craic!

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Mar 17th 2016, 8:15 PM

# Craic agus Ceol

This is what happens when you ask people to sing in Irish at 4am

Props to the ladies belting out Óró, sé do bheatha ‘bhaile while doing the Macarena.

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Mar 4th 2016, 2:08 PM

# Poll

Poll: Should new housing estates be earmarked for Irish speakers?

What do you think?

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Dec 4th 2015, 9:28 AM

# gaschaint

12 times the Irish words for things were truly delightful

The seapáinis. Great bunch of lads.

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Nov 2nd 2015, 9:30 PM

# pioc do ride

TG4's new dating show is basically a real-life version of Horse Outside

Fitzi drives a Mitzi…

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Sep 23rd 2015, 8:34 PM

# Teanga Tied

Irish speakers are angry that Enda Kenny doesn't think the Gaeltacht is in crisis

Enda Kenny made his statement in an RTÉ Radio documentary.

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Jul 25th 2015, 1:29 PM

# léigh anois go curamach

Here's why having Irish gives you a big leg up in grabbing a €52k EU job

It’s ten years since Irish was made an official language of the EU.

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Jun 13th 2015, 9:45 AM

# ceol agus craic

Sinn Féin wants to hear more Irish music on the radio

One of the party’s MEPs wants a quota system introduced.

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May 25th 2015, 5:00 PM

# can't say that

Radio presenters slapped on wrist for talking about 'Irish language Taliban'

FM104′s Phoneshow included comments that Irish-speakers were “nutters”.

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Apr 29th 2015, 2:21 PM

# thug life

11 jokes and references only people who learned Irish will get

Is mise Bart Simpson. Tá mo chraiceann buí.

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Apr 18th 2015, 9:30 AM

# got

Here's how to chat about Game of Thrones, as Gaeilge

Prepare yourself, GoT chat is coming…

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Apr 13th 2015, 7:30 PM

Voices

Do we care enough about Irish to keep it alive?

I have next to no Irish and I’m embarrassed by that… yet I don’t think I’ll ever learn.

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Apr 6th 2015, 1:00 PM

# gaeilge abu

This sketch encapsulates every single 'gritty' TG4 drama ever

“Cá bhfuil…na drugaí?”

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Mar 9th 2015, 1:45 PM

# liudraman

7 Irish words that don't exist in English

Bit of plámás, be grand.

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Mar 6th 2015, 1:08 PM

Voices

Why SHOULD Irish get full EU support? Not enough of us speak it.

Translating documents is a waste of time and money considering the amount of people who choose to actually work through Irish.

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Feb 22nd 2015, 11:00 AM

# stailc teanga

This MEP is going to speak only 'as Gaeilge' in Brussels for a week

Sinn Féin’s Liadh Ní Riada will speak only in Irish in protest at the treatment of the language in EU institutions.

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Feb 17th 2015, 6:32 PM

# óh mo dhia

The YouTube porn hidden behind the Irish language is now gone

The search results for ‘scannán’ or ‘scannáin’ are now markedly more tame.

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Feb 12th 2015, 1:05 PM

# an-gneasach

Porn hunters are ending up at this thoroughly un-titillating Irish film website

The editor of Scannain.com says he hopes the new visitors “aren’t too disappointed” with what they find.

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Feb 12th 2015, 9:56 AM

# Aiming high

"10% of all civil servants should be proficient in the Irish Language"

According to a report by a culture and Gaeltacht committee anyway…

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Jan 28th 2015, 7:33 PM

# conas atá tú

Did you know there are 100 ways to say 'How are you?' as Gaeilge?

‘Cén chaoi a bhfuil tú?’ is but one of MANY.

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Dec 29th 2014, 3:00 PM

# briseadh na rialacha

'Irish language for third-level entry shouldn't be a rule', universities told

Only for Irish language courses according to a task group report.

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Dec 8th 2014, 4:53 PM

# LOL JUST KIDDING

Offended by 'curry my yoghurt'? Gregory Campbell thinks you need a 'humour bypass'

The DUP politician said he does not regret the comments and will not apologise.

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Nov 27th 2014, 4:15 PM

# Chancer

Watch this guy lie on US TV about the meaning of 'An bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an leithreas?'

The divil has them fooled.

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Nov 26th 2014, 10:00 PM

# Gregory Campbell

'Curry my yoghurt' DUP MP receives death threat

Over the weekend, Gregory Campbell said he’d treat an Irish Language Act as “toilet paper.”

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Nov 24th 2014, 3:23 PM

# Toilet Humour

'Curry my yoghurt’ DUP MP says he would treat Irish Language Act 'like toilet paper'

Gregory Campbell also joked about his earlier controversial comments.

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Nov 22nd 2014, 9:07 PM

# can cola coalyer

Now the 'curry my yoghurt' MP has been barred from speaking in Stormont...

… but only for today, and he wasn’t there.

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Nov 4th 2014, 4:57 PM

# UISCE TÉ

'Curry my yoghurt': This DUP politician poked fun at the Irish language today

There was anger at Gregory Campbell’s comments in the Northern Assembly.

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Nov 3rd 2014, 7:02 PM

# Off Track

Cad é an Ghaeilge ar u-turn? Government to review bilingual signage plan

The pilot scheme aimed to have Irish and English the same size on road signs.

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Oct 20th 2014, 4:12 PM

# míshásta

A lot of people think Enda was wrong to make this guy Gaeltacht Minister

But he doesn’t “take it personally.”

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Oct 13th 2014, 1:58 PM

# cúpla.ie

As of this morning, you can now read RTÉ news online 'as Gaeilge'

Attention: Múinteóirí Gaeilge

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Sep 15th 2014, 10:58 AM

Voices

Opinion: 'Peig Sayers represents our complexity and there is a little of her in us all'

The Sayers family were Protestant Cromwellian landed genrty whose descendent ended up being one of the most famous storytellers in Europe, speaking the Irish language.

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Sep 12th 2014, 9:00 AM

Voices

Opinion: The new Gaeltacht Minister has hit the ground running – despite not being fluent

Joe McHugh has vowed to “fully immerse” himself in the language and tweet his progress. It’s an approach many politicians could learn from.

Jul 29th 2014, 8:00 AM

# foreign teanga

Why are some foreigners being "ridiculed" for learning Irish?

Students at Conradh na Gaeilge told one documentary maker about the attitudes their Irish friends had towards them learning the language.

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Jul 20th 2014, 8:30 PM

Voices

Opinion: Older people and Gaeilgeoirí are right to be indignant – this Cabinet doesn't care about them

The new Gaeltacht minister isn’t fluent in Irish and the de-prioritisation of older people’s issues has been rubber-stamped; whole sections of society are being disenfranchised.

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Jul 16th 2014, 7:30 PM