MEPs challenged to maintain Irish status

AS a member of Fine Gael I was surprised to read that three Fine Gael MEPs have never spoken in Irish in the EU parliament in 2007 and that one has only spoken one sentence there (Irish Examiner, January 21).

I put in many hours in a voluntary capacity and worked in part-time paid employment in an Irish language organisation for the campaign to make Irish an official EU language.

Needless to say, I believed passionately in making Irish an official language of the EU.