Simple solution to stop students hating Irish

The way Irish is taught from primary to secondary school is begging for reform.

As a nation, if we wish to keep our last flicker of culture alive the Irish curriculum needs to be changed, and fast.

I am a secondary school pupil in fifth year, and throughout my school days from primary to secondary I couldn’t help notice how badly our native language is taught. In primary school, Irish was nothing more than learning off random vocabulary and pieces of grammar for a Friday test. The week after that test, all we had previously learned had been forgotten. Leaving primary school I was unsure how to say ‘a’ in Irish: this was not because I didn’t pay attention and listen, but because we did not learn basic grammar essentials or how to form a sentence.