Comhrá talent on show in longest-ever Irish chat bid

Students at home and abroad are among dozens of groups who are close to setting a record for the longest conversation in Irish.

For a group of transition-year students at St Colman’s Community College in Midleton, their hour online for the record attempt co-ordinated by the organisers of Seachtain na Gaeilge, was spent discussing different types of dance.

“It isn’t something the boys are too interested in, but they put in the work and research, and after seeing about the world record attempt on the news, they got really enthusiastic about it,” said Kelly Ní Chonaill, their teacher at the east Cork school.