I had to do a double-take on the news piece on RTE.ie. Yesterday was April Fool’s day, so this has to be either true or badly timed:
Local authorities have refused to allow members of the public to use addresses in Irish in the new Register of Electors, which is being compiled at the moment.
Come again?
You mean that they’re rewriting the rules to suit themselves again…
This would, I presume, be the same body of people who managed to drop thousands of people from the current register of electors, or maybe they’re just a related group ….
The Report of the Irish language Ombudsman, An Coimisinéir Teanga, has suggested that such a practice undermines the concept of recognising addresses in Irish, or the use of bilingual placenames, signage or road signs.
That’s fairly obvious …
Well done!
While other governments are embracing national cultures ours is doing its best to subdue it!
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