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Language priorities

IN response to John Alan O'Donovan's letter (Irish Examiner, April 11), he should be the last to complain if he was obliged by his own logic to study a foreign language for 13 years.

Language priorities

Mon, 17 Apr, 2006 - 01:00

That is the essential difference between studying Irish and other languages: the former is native, the latter are foreign.

While I support the learning of a foreign language this cannot be regarded in the same light as a native language, and it is naïve of Mr O'Donovan to do so.

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