@richardtgarland The "politicisation" of the Irish language began long before SF. It began with state policies to marginalise its use, disadvantage its speakers and force Irish people to learn and use English.
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Críostóir Ó Faoláin
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Críostóir Ó Faoláin
@ofaolainC
Rí Heilbhic. Stiúrthóir le Coláiste na Rinne. Criú le @RNLI Ceann Heilbhic.
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Seems clear that SF couldn’t care less about the Irish language when they are prepared to politicise and undermine it in the manner that they are.
They are out to get a reaction and if the language suffers it will be mere collateral damage in the wider Republican “struggle”.
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@ColetteColfer The manner of the objection, not the subject of the objection, is the root of the issue.
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I fully agree that Burke is in prison for violating a court order. However, I think it’s important to acknowledge the root of the case. The court order arose because Burke refused to comply with his suspension. The suspension was the direct result of Burke’s objection, and his manner of objection, to compelled use of they/them pronouns for a singular male student.
Shaykh Dr. Umar Al-Qadri@DrUmarAlQadri
Enoch Burke is in prison for violating a court order to stay away from the school grounds, not for refusing to use “they/them” pronouns. He is not a religious hero. The lack of support from the Churches should make that clear. Don’t let bias prevent you from recognising facts.
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Críostóir Ó Faoláin retweetledi
Connolly was born & reared in Scotland
Pearse was the son of an immigrant
Clarke was born in England
De Valera was American-born to a Cuban-Basque father
Markievicz was an English-born Protestant
Robert Briscoe & Michael Noyk were of Lithuanian Jewish descent
Need I go on?
Michaela Ní Chéadaigh@MichaelaKeddy
You can't claim you would be like the men of 1916 if you support migrants coming into Ireland in their thousands. larger than the numbers of the British plantations.
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@Timeo764471 @Glinner @EnochBurke The High Court placed major weight on Burke’s conduct, not just his beliefs. In particular hus disruptive behaviour, including confronting the principal publicly.
The court emphasized that he was not dismissed for holding beliefs, the issue was his conduct.
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@ofaolainC @Glinner @EnochBurke 2...they/them pronouns, plus non acceptance of transgenderism,
Judge faherty called this instruction the 'kernel of the case',and the schools overreaching complaint,the report itself centered on non compliance with PRONOUN DIRECTIVE.
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Check this out @EnochBurke. Think how much the Irish government owes you by now.
Dr. Simon Goddek@goddek
Good.
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@RealIrishCONS People descended from Norse/Normans/English etc are not Irish regardless of their citizenship? That's a radical racial ideology that I doubt many Irish people would have any time for.
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A passport will never make you Irish.
We are Gaels.
We have distinct genetic markers.
We go back thousands of years.
It's our island.
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@EdwardRing2111 @NiecyOKeeffe The notion that having our language replaced by German is somehow worse than our language being replaced by English is odd...
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@NiecyOKeeffe Nancy. You would be speaking German only for Churchill. He was a great wartime leader. Yes he was a prick towards the Irish who brought the Black and Tans over. Don’t twist his words
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He’s that pathetic. Weak. Sad. Afraid. I know he was under pressure but this was a choice. The choice of being a weak man. Hope he enjoyed being made to look an absolute fool. 👍
Tory Fibs@ToryFibs
The Irish Prime Minister in the White House just now “Winston Churchill was a Great War time leader”.
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@mjc0ughl4n @CogitoScio @MulhallOdyssey @DanMulhall What better way's would these be? Choosing to make Irish an optional subject, despite the lack of support for such a move, would be a clear signal that Irish is being deprioritised by the state and it would almost certainly see people discouraged to study and use it.
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@ofaolainC @CogitoScio @MulhallOdyssey @DanMulhall Optionality doesn’t predetermine the State’s stance. What follows is what matters, and Ireland has plenty of tools to support a subject when it chooses to. There are better ways the state can support Irish than forcing it on kids who struggle with it.
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I think it might have to do with the name of our country & a legitimate desire to preserve our national language, which is part of what makes us Irish.
Tom Doorley@tomdoorley
Make Irish optional for Leaving Cert. Why do universities (other than @tcddublin) insist on Irish, English and Maths? English, I get. Maths, maybe. But Irish? Opinion: Ireland’s ‘power class’ has a colonial attitude to the Irish language irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/0…
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@mjc0ughl4n @CogitoScio @MulhallOdyssey @DanMulhall Making Irish optional would be a clear signal regarding political will, especially given there is little public support for such a move.
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@ofaolainC @CogitoScio @MulhallOdyssey @DanMulhall Not necessarily. England’s outcome wasn’t caused by optionality alone. It was caused by the State stepping back. Ireland already props up small LC subjects through allocation rules and funding. When Irish is also optional, the real variable won't be demand but political will.
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@mjc0ughl4n @CogitoScio @MulhallOdyssey @DanMulhall It would clearly lead to a drop in teaching positions, as happened in England when the study of a second language was made optional.
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@ofaolainC @CogitoScio @MulhallOdyssey @DanMulhall It would likely lead to a drop in teaching hours. But, given the status of Irish, the state could justifiably intervene to protect teaching hours. Much smaller optional subjects like Music and Physics survive in smaller schools through the state quietly propping them up.
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@mjc0ughl4n @CogitoScio @MulhallOdyssey @DanMulhall There would be a significant reduction in the number of teaching positions, and a knockon impact at third level etc. Making learning a second language optional in England, for much the same reason as you are suggesting here, was a terrible decision.
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@CogitoScio @MulhallOdyssey @DanMulhall History isn't compulsory at Leaving Cert and yet we still have history teachers. Geography isn't compulsory and we still have geography teachers. I'm not suggesting we remove Irish from the curriculum. I'm saying we should make it optional in fifth and sixth year.
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@mjc0ughl4n @DanMulhall That's rather simplistic. We have some useful comparisons available over in the UK. Welsh is doing much better where significantly more robust policies have been implemented in Wales, while Scottish Gaelic is in a much worse position where much weaker policies were implemented.
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@DanMulhall But compulsory Irish at LC hasn't proven to be a successful strategy in terms of preserving the Irish language.
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@supercron @DrClaytonForre1 Nah.
We don't have people regularly going bankrupt due to illness, we don't have school shootings, we don't have people crippled for life with student loans, we don't have for-profit prisons, we don't have a pedophile as President, and we don't need advice from racist Yanks.
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When I was growing up, Ireland was an extremely Catholic, conservative and homogeneous country. It’s been ruined in less than a single lifetime.
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@mjc0ughl4n @Dengs333 @DVATW @DavidTheCaver The visit was a personal call to the ambassador, who behaved quite well in his dealings with the Irish government throughout. I think the main purpose of the visit was to reassure the ambassador he would not be arrested and extradited despite the demands of some allied diplomats.
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@Dengs333 @DVATW @DavidTheCaver And nowhere in that article does it say that Ireland opened a book of condolences upon the death of Hitler. The visit of De Valera to the German Minister is well known, but there were no books of condolences.
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When Hitler died, Ireland opened a book of condolences. Nothing has changed….👇🏻
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@philippilk Yeah, we should have freed ourselves from our dependance on fossil fuels much earlier.
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Britain looks set to be worst hit in Europe by gas shortages. Ireland is supplied by Britain. The country is about to get a lesson in energy security. 🇮🇪
NewstalkFM@NewstalkFM
Ireland cannot "protect ourselves against the price rises that are coming” if the war with Iran continues, Eamon Ryan has warned. newstalk.com/news/price-gou…
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@LOCthedreamer2 Why should being Christian be a get out of jail free card? If you are in contempt of court, that's what happens, your religion should have no bearing on the outcome.
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Where christians are jailed and paedophiles go free.
I'm ashamed of our judiciary and our political class.
#MakeIrelandSafeAgain
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@KeithMillsD7 The notion that we should pander to a clown who will be gone and forgotten in a couple of years is a bad joke.
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If the Irish government doesn't learn lessons from this then Ireland is f***ed.
Disclose.tv@disclosetv
NOW - Trump: "We're gonna cut off all trade with Spain, we don't want anything to do with Spain."
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@RawWarBro There is nothing stopping any future government, other than the national interest in not wasting time and money on an outdated dead end.
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@ofaolainC They were and they blocked oil and gas exploration for any future government following agenda 2030
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