Maltese experience is different to Ireland’s

I MOSTLY agree with what Dáithí Mac Cárthaigh said (Irish Examiner, February 2). What I would like to point out is that in contrast to Ireland, all the Maltese people in Malta speak the language.

Mon, 09 Feb, 2004 - 00:00

This is so that the Maltese language lives on.

In the three years that I have been coming to Ireland, I have not heard an Irish conversation between two or more persons; it has always been in English.

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