Bilingual bulletins to promote Irish language

Dual-language All-Ireland commentary and bilingual bulletins on 2fm are planned as part of a new RTÉ action plan to further promote the Irish language.

The new action plan is billed as an “ambitious plan” to “re-cast the role of the Irish language across all RTÉ sevices”. It was published in response to a wide-ranging 2013 report compiled by a special working group.

Announcing a range of initiatives, RTÉ confirmed that viewers will, for the first time, be able to choose to hear this year’s All-Ireland television commentaries in Irish as well as English.