Ireland: Language sparks debate in Kerry

[Francis Hult]

BBC News

 

Language sparks debate in Kerry 

 

The status of the Irish language in Northern Ireland has prompted bitter debate in the assembly after Culture Minister Edwin Poots said he would not introduce an Irish Language Act. 

 

But in one of the few remaining Irish-speaking areas in Ireland, there's another debate, this time demanding that more English and less Irish be spoken in a new secondary school in Dingle. 

 

The Kerry Gaeltacht, or Irish-speaking area, is one of the few places left where Irish can be heard in the street. 

 

But in the capital, Dingle, or in its official Irish title, Daingean Ui Chuis, English is widely used. 

 

Two secondary schools recently merged into a new one, Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne. 

But the school's policy of teaching all lessons through Irish has led to protests by some students who say they cannot understand what they are being taught

 

Full story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7162108.stm

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