Saturday, May 19, 2012

A couple random news items

Hey, Blogger, thanks for making your stuff even harder to use! I give, I have better things to do (believe it or not) than fight to make this post fit the style I used to follow. Or even be consistent within the same post, apparently.
Chinese set to be Junior Cert subject (May 11, 2012)
http://www.theirishworld.com/newsbrilast/21660-chinese-set-to-be-junior-cert-subject
"Irish secondary school students will have the option to study Mandarin Chinese when the language is put on the Junior Certificate curriculum in 2014, Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn has announced."

"After a long, distinguished career, there is very little Micheal O Muircheartaigh hasn't experienced in live sports commentary.
"But yesterday, the veteran broadcaster was at the races where he commentated on a race as Gaeilge.
"Mr O Muircheartaigh was in Killarney, Co Kerry, where he helped celebrate 'La na Gaeilge' on the opening day of a three-day horse racing festival."

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