Call for legal protection for Irish speaking workers following Cork bar issue

Irish language campaigners have called for legal protection for language rights in the workplace after the owners of a Cork bar reportedly told a barman to stop speaking Irish.

Conradh na Gaeilge spoke out yesterday after The Flying Enterpriseon South Gate Bridge warned native Irish speaker, Cormac Ó Bruic, against speaking Irish while at work because it was “an English-speaking business”.

Mr Ó Bruic, from the Kerry Gaeltacht Corca Dhuibhne, said he felt he had no option but to walk away from the job: “In my mind, I have to stand up for the language. I love it and that there are still people who don’t want to hear the language at all, I can’t understand it.”