The Department of Education has been called on to intervene in a dispute at an Irish-medium unit in Louth where parents say their children are not being taught in Irish.

A community radio station on an island off the south-west coast is to trial EU-funded technology to allow it broadcast digitally-created Irish dialects in English and as Gaeilge.

The playwright John Millington Synge had a great grá for the Irish language, once declaring: “There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.”

Poet Pat Boran in conversation with Hilary Fennell.

551 staff out of the 21,060 (2.62%) employed by government departments were identified as staff having competence in the Irish language.

Funding worth €250,000 has been announced for an initiative which will allow third level students to spend three months in the Gaeltacht.

Columnist Daniel McConnell’s opinion on the Irish language was pointed out to me this week.

In response to Daniel McConnell’s article on April 6, I would like to make the following points.

In his epic March 2011 Vanity Fair piece on the Irish financial crash, Michael Lewis made many fascinating observations about our funny little ways.

Ten language planning officers have been appointed countrywide in recent months, and one of them has an unusual background.

Meet the man taking Irish out of the classroom and into the great outdoors. Could this be the key to teaching our kids our native tongue? Helen O’Callaghan reports

Calling all Gaeilgeoirí.

Submissions close next Friday on a plan which warns of the erosion of the cultural integrity of a Cork Gaeltacht area of “international heritage significance”.

The State data watchdog is investigating the refusal of public bodies and private companies to properly spell Irish names after a television producer being treated for cancer alleged a breach of strict EU rules.

Kids have it easy today. OK, maybe those now in their teenage years will suffer the worst excesses of climate change. Sure, they probably won’t ever be able to afford to buy a home. Alright, they are growing up in a turbulent world where the old order is rapidly changing, writes Michael Clifford

Hundreds of students considering a course to become a primary teacher after their degree will no longer have to take multiple Irish oral tests if they apply to more than one college.

An Irish language planning officer has been appointed for the Múscraí Gaeltacht in a bid to increase the level of Irish spoken daily in the Mid-Cork region.

There is a wide gap in overall levels of education between those residing in the Gaeltacht and the State average, a new study has found.

Irish speakers are calling for €9m in funding to preserve the language and create jobs in Gaeltacht areas.

Manchán Magan tells Marjorie Brennan about the quirky free shows he’s bringing to Cork Opera House to foster a new love of Irish.

A drink-driving prosecution was challenged successfully yesterday on a submission related to the Irish language and the statement issued from the breath test machine known as the evidenzer.

Irish cultural organisation Conradh na Gaeilge is today celebrating its 125th year.

To describe the Irish language as a sacred cow or its revival as a white elephant risks the aggressive opprobrium of a certain kind of Gaeilgeoir.

The Government wants to increase the number of Irish speakers in Gaeltacht areas by 25%.

Dingle, An Daingean or Daingean Uí Chúis, is cuma, or call it what you will, but a recent trip left my wife and I disappointed as we discovered that few if anybody there speaks as Gaeilge.