News flurry, to an 8ú lá Mí na Márta

Feel the Leabhar Power this Seachtain na Gaeilge (Feb 27, 2008)
http://www.galwayindependent.com/local-news/local-news/feel-the-leabhar-power-this-seachtain-na-gaeilge/
“Leabhar Power, the popular initiative to promote Irish language books, will run from Monday, 3 to Monday, 17 March at various venues around Galway.”

Day School in Cardiff - Our Celtic Cousins (March 2, 2008)
http://www.agencebretagnepresse.com/fetch.php?id=9829&title=Day%20School%20in%20Cardiff%20-%20Our%20Celtic%20Cousins
“The Day School on the theme 'Our Celtics Cousins' organized by the Cymdeithas Carnhuanawc or Carnhuanawc Society in Cardiff on Feb 16th, was about the development of Irish language in Northern Ireland Prison of Long Kesh in the 70s, about a journey in Brittany of the Welsh Rev Thomas Price, or Carnhuawac, about the situation of Cornish and of Gaelic in Scotland nowadays, by four eminent specialists of Celtic languages, their history, their literature."

Looking to the future (March 4, 2008)
http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3569&Itemid=38
“It’s a question the Irish nation has been asking itself since the creation of the State. Is the Irish language a language in decline and is there any point in trying to revive it?”

Allez an Ghaeilge (March 4, 2008)
http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3570&Itemid=38
“They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Well nobody mentioned that to Frenchman Guy Racoillet, who moved to Ireland ten years ago and promptly started to learn Irish – at the age of 57.”

Irish language opt-outs soar (March 5, 2008)
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/irish-language-optouts-soar-1306997.html
“The number of secondary school students gaining exemption from studying Irish because they have a 'learning difficulty' is rocketing.”

Living and learning (March 5, 2008)
http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3596&Itemid=38
“Úna Quinn is easy to describe, but impossible to define. A retiree. A mother and grandmother. A widow. A Gaeilgeoir. An academic. A musician. A teacher. So many attributes – and yet none which fully captures her.”

Kings for the Craic (March 5, 2008)
http://www.irishabroad.com/news/irish-voice/entertainment/Articles/Kings-for-the-Craic080308.aspx
“The 10th annual Craic Fest arrives this Wednesday, March 5, at Cinema Village on West 12th Street in Manhattan featuring the strongest lineup of new Irish films and performers in its eventful history.”

PCD enrollees asked to sign up to school's all-Irish policy (March 5, 2008)
http://www.kerryman.ie/news/pcd-enrollees-asked-to-sign-up-to-schools-allirish-policy-1308447.html
“The school is currently facing the threat of two High Court actions over its language policy. One of these is being taken by parents who oppose the school?s all-Irish policy. The second is being taken by parents who contend that the school?s all-Irish policy is not being strictly enforced.”

Now you’re talking (March 6, 2008)
http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/jobs-careers/now-you8217re-talking-1308164.html
“The Gaelic proverb ‘Tús maith leath na h-oibre’ — meaning a good start is half the work — is particularly relevant in today’s working climate, given how valuable a basic command of, or indeed fluency in, the Irish language has become.”

'Ceol agus Craic' at Ossory Youth (March 7, 2008)
http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/39Ceol-agus-Craic39-at-Ossory.3853024.jp
“As part of Seachtain na Gaeilge, Ossory Youth is hosting a special Irish Night of 'ceol agus craic' today (Friday) from 8-11 pm for Kilkenny's youth.”

Irish 'should threaten no-one' (March 7, 2008)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7282292.stm
“Culture Minister Edwin Poots has said he believes the Irish language should threaten no-one.
“He was speaking at his first Irish language event, a conference organised by Irish speakers group Pobal.”

Cleas Act: Bishop putting fun into Gaeilge (March 7, 2008)
http://www.galwaynews.ie/3048-cleas-act
“'I don’t think there’s any language in the world with more baggage than Irish. If you want to dismiss the language, you can just take your pick of the issues you can choose from,’ observes Des Bishop as he sips a diet cola in An Cruiscín Lán pub in Spiddal.”
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