Hanafin’s order should be resisted

WHO does Education Minister Mary Hanafin think she is in issuing an order to all Gaelscoileanna that they must teach English to all of their students. Compulsory English!

This is worse than the misguided educational policy enunciated by Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny in a bid to win popular support before the last general election when he stated that all pupils following the Junior Certificate need not bother to study Irish further unless they wanted to.

What a shortsighted policy, just when the Irish language is turning the corner and the Gaelscoileanna are proving to be one of the great success stories in the campaign to spread the use of our native language