Standard of students' Irish 'shameful' after 14 years of learning language 

Mícheál Ó Foighil, manager of Coláiste Lurgan in Connemara, has criticised both the minister for education and the department for the way in which Irish is being taught in schools.

The head of one of the country's best-known Gaeltacht summer colleges has slammed the Government for "putting its head in the sand" in relation to the "broken education system".

Mícheál Ó Foighil, manager of Coláiste Lurgan in Connemara, has criticised both the minister for education and the department for the way in which Irish is being taught in schools and said the standard among students is "shameful".