I’m gutted. Could he be wrong, I wonder. After all, he’s pronouncing against the entire Irish primary school education system in the 1970s. (And the start of spring is still being taught as ...

THE NUMBER OF secondary school pupils given an exemption from studying Irish last year was almost double the number granted an exemption before the pandemic. Figures obtained by The Journal under ...

“Primary school had always been a problem ... Stories abound of students evading Irish by wrongly securing an exemption. The reality is very different for students with learning differences.

The story of Steelstown All Irish National School, Derry. Interview with Majella Maines, Teacher on the need for spoken Irish. Liam Ó Muirthile chats to some of the pupils. Sean McCarron comments ...