No crocodile tears for language to be worn as a green nationalist sash

The idea of reviving the Irish language as the first language of the Irish nation was always delusional, writes Victoria White.

The Irish language was one of the bloodiest battle-fields in the campaign for today’s Northern Ireland Assembly elections.

The cancellation of bursaries for less advantaged people to go to the Donegal Gaeltacht by the DUP’s minister for communities Paul Givan was nasty and it hardened Sinn Féin’s resolve to push for the election.