Sinn Féin launches its manifesto to advance the Irish language

Sinn Féin today pledged a new 10-year development plan to preserve and advance the Irish language.

Sinn Féin launched their major manifesto for the Irish language todayat the Round Tower in Clondalkin, Dublin. Bairbre de Brún MEP and Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD both attended the launch. Bairbre de Brún has just completed a tour of Gaeltacht areas in Meath, Waterford, Kerry, Galway, Mayo and Donegal.

Among the key proposals in the document are a development plan focusing on the preservation and advancement of the language over the next decade, the putting in place a monitoring programme for the Gaeltacht and a mechanism to officially recognise 'Breac-Ghaeltachtaí' throughout the island, the retention of the Irish language as a core subject at post primary level and the teaching of a second subject through Irish at primary school level.