Keep Irish in schools
Nollaig 16, 2013
I see that some columnists and letter-writers constantly refer to the ‘ billions of euro’ that would be saved if the Irish language was removed from the curriculum of Irish schools – the pinnacle of what Irish patheticism seeks to achieve.
Unless the school day was made shorter, the teachers would still have to be paid the same; and if all Irish language teachers were dismissed, other teachers would have to be employed to fill the timetable. It costs no more or less to educate a child in Irish than in English, and I suspect that replacing Irish with Mandarin Chinese would actually cost more than teaching Irish. Ciaran Dunbar An Spideal, Co na Gaillimhe
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