Language priorities

MORE than 155,000 Polish citizens now live here — all fluent in their own language.

Language priorities
Tue, 11 Apr, 2006 - 01:00

The number of Gaeltacht residents who use Irish as their first language is around 80,000. Why, then, are official documents translated (at much expense) into Irish and not Polish?

John Alan O’Donovan

5 Summerhill Heights

Watergate Street

Bandon

Co Cork

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