Children have right to learn through Irish

YOUR editorial, (October 17), calls for the secondary schoolchildren of the Kerry Gaeltacht to be educated through the medium of English.

Do these Gaeltacht children not enjoy the right to an education through their mother tongue — Irish — in the same way as children born, say, in north Cork have the right to be educated through their mother tongue — English?

Does this threatened Gaeltacht community not deserve every possible support it needs in order to thrive as a treasured linguistic community?