Ó Cuív as ‘competent’ as Dev when it comes to farcical Irish policy, says Deasy

THE De Valera and Deasy political dynasties clashed in the south-east yesterday while Fine Gael was meeting in Kilkenny.

Community and Gaeltacht Affairs Minister Eamon Ó Cuív took a sideswipe at Fine Gael TD John Deasy’s criticism of the multi-million cost of translating documents into Irish as a result of the new Official Languages Act. The Waterford TD hit back by sarcastically comparing the minister to his grandfather, Eamonn De Valera.

According to Mr Deasy, it is farcical that the law requires all public documents to be translated and the funding could be better used to develop Irish language education.