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Irish Language - Discussion on the Late Late Show (Part 1)

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Part One. Pat Kenny is first joined by comedian Des Bishop, and then is joined by Cillian Fennel and TV presenter Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh. They discuss the current state of the Irish language. (An Ghaeilge)

From Irish chat show, The Late Late Show. Aired on the 7th of March 2008 on RTÉ One.

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  • exempt from Irish class? What a joke. They should exempt people from English class, most people already speak English, yet they can't speak there mother tongue

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  • Pat Kenny de smugest man on earth

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  • His Irish is quite shit to be honest. My Swedish is better than that after having learnt it for only 5 months.

  • @converter7 sry forget that ladt last

  • @converter7 pog ma hon- means kiss my ass you thick racist cunt

  • @MrsCplusthree Oh, well that makes sense then, lol. Thanks.

  • @joker102877 He is from NY as far as I know, Des Bishop, comedian!!

  • This guy sounds like he's from Brooklyn, New York. Where is he from?

  • @Tibialmario Well it's obvious it ain't working, if only a small percentage of the country is fluent in it after 12 years of being taught it in school.He's american and spent a year learning it and can now speak it fluently so he has a say in the matter.

  • @Djsouthpaw1987 our countries history in school. I had to learn it for myself before taking a degree in it in university. Thankfully times are changing. I love languages, including English and love to learn diffrent languages and believe every school should be teaching children many languages. But the native tounge must always come first, we can't keep our languages at the heath, they must be the language of academia, the workforce and the public sector too.In varietate concordia

  • @Djsouthpaw1987 I never claimed my English was perfect, nor have I said we should get rid of English from the classroom. I was just saying the native tougue of a people must take priority. English is a great international language, but people must know their native toungues first. Just like our schools should be teaching national history before teaching the history of other nations. Thankfully this is changing, but it wasn't the case when I was in school, we never learned any of

  • @converter7 It's written "their". Maybe there is a point to having english in class isn't there?

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