I WAS very taken aback at your intolerant editorial (October 17) in which you betray your true attitude to Irish as a language ‘force-fed’ at school and then you err in fact by stating that each successive census has shown a fall in the number of people describing themselves as competent in Irish.

THE teaching of Irish as a second language at second level is not infrequently associated with frustration.

FROM the foundation of the state, the issue of whether An Daingean was the capital of the West Kerry Gaeltacht or an Anglophone bastion on its edge remained unresolved.