For the very first time, the GAA in Cork is running a summer camp for juveniles which will be entirely conducted in Irish.

Three Leaving Certificate pals who are juggling their studies with running a business are hoping to play their cards right when they represent Ireland at a global entrepreneur competition.

A large number of state agencies, including the Equality Authority, have no employees with a disability despite a statutory target that they should account for at least 3% of their workforces.

It certainly brings a new twist to the phrase ‘cúpla focal’.

It seems we are after more than just a ‘cúpla focal’ with figures showing a doubling in the number of visitors to focloir.ie, the English-Irish dictionary translation site.

THE resignation of the Irish-language commissioner, Seán Ó Cuirreáin, is “undoubtedly the worst blow to the Irish language in many years,” say Irish-language group, Conradh na Gaeilge.

The annual Cape Clear International Storytelling Festival will celebrate the live art from Sept 6-8. The festival, established by writer, Chuck Kruger, in 1994, attracts storytellers from all over the world.

Three students who opted for production of their new Irish-language word game in Ireland, instead of China, were rewarded with a €2,000 bursary on RTÉ TV’s Junior Dragons’ Den.

Cyberbullying, retweet, and cloud computing — just some of the words we can now say as Gaeilge.

Irish language experts have warned that changes to how organisations promoting it are funded threaten to put them out of existence and to put staff out of jobs.

The infrastructure needed by Irish speakers is about to be destroyed.

WE IRISH are a proud lot.

PUPILS from both sides of the border have been recognised for their innovative efforts to promote spoken Irish in school.

MORE than €6m was given out in grants by the North/South Language Body without formal approval from the governments in the republic and Northern Ireland, it has emerged.

BRIAN DE STAIC, who runs a chain of jewellery shops in Munster, was named entrepreneur of the year at the Business As Gaeilge awards in Dublin on Friday night.

A CAMPAIGN for a support centre for all-Irish schools is to place pressure on Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe to deliver the facility promised nine years ago in his own constituency.

GAA president Nickey Brennan has led the tributes to Liam Mulvihill, who held a final press conference today as he retires as the Association's director general, a post he has held since June 1, 1979.

THE public face of the IRA who made the announcement that the all members of the organisation were being stood down has been named as a board member of the Government-backed group promoting Irish on both sides of the Border.

YOUR editorial concerning expenditure on Irish language versions of public documents (November 5), and the report on which it was based, do not present a fair and accurate picture.

I SYMPATHISE with the predicament of fifth-year student Sonya Minihane (Letters, October 1) in relation to spoken Irish.

LAST year Fine Gael called for the official Irish language movement to be audited.

Aughrim in Co Wicklow was today named Ireland's tidiest town.

THE Government’s policy of compelling employees in semi-state agencies to decentralise has failed, SIPTU claimed yesterday.

I AM always watching your letters page for comments on the rise and fall of the Irish language movement, and I laud Daithí Kimber’s efforts at promoting the cúpla focal (July 30).

I WAS interested in the letters from Foras na Gaeilge (July 20) and Darren Mac an Phríora (July 13) regarding the approach of Foras to the promotion of the Irish language at local level and the €3.6 million fund set up for this purpose.

GAELSCOILEANNA that have traditionally not taught English until after junior infants will be given a year’s grace to introduce a policy under which the subject must be taught after the first term of school.

IN response to Darren Mac an Phríora (Letters, July 13) regarding the Irish language, I wish to point out that Foras na Gaeilge is the body responsible for the promotion of the Irish language throughout the island of Ireland — a role which involves facilitating and encouraging the use of Irish in the public and private arena on an all-island basis.

A DIRECTIVE to all-Irish schools from Education Minister Mary Hanafin that they must begin teaching English to children no later than the second term of junior infants is not to be issued until after the election.

An Irish-language newspaper backed by the Irish and British governments was launched today.

A NEWLY opened, all-Irish secondary school in Limerick will be one of the first in the country to offer the Irish language version of the Microsoft Windows and Office from early next year.

THERE was a time when sending the children to Irish college meant a few weeks of peace at home but mums and dads are now taking the chance to improve their use of their native language at the same time.

LÁ, in conjunction with sponsors Foras na Gaeilge and Viridian, have announced the inaugural Top 50 Business as Gaeilge awards.

Special Olympics supremo Mary Davis is to head a new national citizenship task force to urge people to get involved in voluntary work in their communities.

ALL-IRISH schools have difficulty getting textbooks in the language despite huge Government spending on unread translations of official reports, Senator Joe O’Toole claimed yesterday.

A TRAINING centre for 3,000 teachers in the country’s Gaeltacht and all-Irish schools is still in the planning stages seven years after it was first announced.

FORAS na Gaeilge yesterday confirmed that chief executive Seosamh Mac Donncha is to take up a senior position in the education sector in April 2006.

The All-Ireland football championship looks set to take over homes around the country again today as Sony Playstation’s Gaelic Games: Football went on sale.

Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Éamon Ó Cuív has launched Irish language packs for Windows XP and Microsoft Office 2003.

FANS of The Quiet Man film - set in Ireland in 1951 - plan to dub the John Ford classic into the Irish language.

Fans of The Quiet Man film – set in Ireland in 1951 – plan to dub the John Ford classic into the Irish language, it emerged today.

The daily Irish language newspaper Lá has blamed unionists for forcing it to lay off two workers.

The Camogie Association this afternoon officially launched the 2004 All-Ireland championships, with President Miriam O'Callaghan promising the most competitive summer yet.

AND the Word was made Focal.

A SENIOR Irish diplomat is set to take the witness stand in the Colombian trial of three Irishmen accused of helping to train left wing guerrillas in the use of mortars.