Irish speakers treated poorly by the CSO

I WOULD like to make a few points regarding how Irish speakers were treated by the Central Statistics Office in this year’s census, 2011.

Enumerators were given no help or guidance regarding Irish-language addresses.

Regardless of whether the census form requested was in Irish or English, the address was written in English by the Enumerator. Irish speakers who asked to use their Irish addresses were looked on as eccentrics who could be ignored.