Law students rap Government for scrapping exam

THE recent cabinet decision to abolish the Irish language requirement for the Law Society and the King’s Inns was disappointing.

While downgrading the status of Irish in the legal community, the Government on the same day contradictorily announced that ministers would be mandated to use Irish at EU council meetings.

The Government cannot claim, nationally and internationally, that Irish is our official language while at the same time ignoring the obligations that flow from this status.