Talk:Languages of the Republic of Ireland

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The article is Irish language centric, whats the point of quoting figures on outside Ireland when its supposed to be an article on the Republic of Ireland? It gives no citations for the figures, just Government of Ireland 2004 - what department, office, etc - and specific publication? The section entitled "Other Languages from Ireland" - what exactly is this about? The final section says "...English is favoured in more urban areas", so what is "favored" outside these areas, do the "rural" people speak Irish or maybe Scottish Gaelic or Welsh? In the final paragraph why mention "he quickly growing Muslim minority" as if language is religion specific - and again a Irish centric claim to finish the article - are their any attempts to teach English, etc. Djegan 20:38, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I agree, this is probably the worst page I've seen on wikipedia, the claims about use of Irish outside Ireland are highly spurious and I seriously doubt them, I'll try clean it up a bit. - User:Dalta

I wonder if the assertions that English is considered cooler that Irish and that irish is seen as backward are both rather passé as of 2006CE. I worked with several Irish people in professional settings all over Europe, and in my sample of dozens of highly educated and cosmopolitan types, ALL claimed they could speak Irish and I roughly heard one in three using it when phoning home - can't say whether out of habit, or as a means of ensuring their privacy when no other Irish people were present. User:Spamhog