Europe has a new language that we don’t speak

THE Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dermot Ahern, who I assume is fluent in the Irish language, has said it was difficult to get the agreement of some members of the EU to make Irish one of its official languages.

I’m not surprised.

Many in the EU must be aware that members of our national parliament, to put it mildly, are far from fluent in our ‘first language’.