Letter to the Editor: ‘Toy Show’ let down by lack of Irish language

Many in the Irish language and Gaeltacht community, including my own family, and others with an interest in the language were left disappointed by The Late Late Toy Show last Friday as the show didn’t represent them.

The RTÉ website refers to The Late Late Toy Show with this line: ‘What we’re saying is, the Toy Show is the perfect show for just about everyone’. It’s shameful that the ‘everyone’ RTÉ reference here leaves out children being brought up through Irish, who attend a gaelscoil or who are interested in the country’s first official language, and who, quite reasonably, would expect the language be included in the television show that has highest number of viewers per year.