Irish diplomats receive €820k of foreign language tuition

Irish diplomats received over €820,000 worth of tuition in Swahili, Hebrew, Chinese, and other languages since 2013, records show.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has revealed that its domestic and international officials attended classes in 35 languages in the period.

These included Indonesian, Arabic, Cantonese, Bulgarian, Slovak, Norwegian, Vietnamese, Latvian, and Korean.