Census shows that more than half of Irish speakers 'don't speak it well'

All eight Gaeltacht areas saw a population increase in the six years to 2022. File picture

More than half of people who speak Irish feel that they don’t speak the language well, the census has shown.

Overall, 40% of the population—1,873,997 people—responded to questions in the census saying that they could speak Irish. While that figure is up 6% on the 2016 census, of those who said they spoke the language, more than half (55%) indicated that they didn’t do it well.