No Irish greeting on Aer Lingus to Belfast?

Cead mile failte Kate! (Dec 14, 2007)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7145268.stm
"The December edition of Let's Talk was dominated by the politics of sport and Irish language."

SF plea for Irish speakers in North

(Dec 13, 2007)
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/1213/breaking58.htm
"The Government must protect the rights of Irish speakers in Northern Ireland, Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams urged today.
"Mr Adams today met Gaeltacht Affairs Minister Eamon O Cuiv in Dublin to push for the enactment of an Irish Language Act in the Stormont Assembly."

Review: Translator's nightmare, this 'Táin' is a dream

(Dec 12, 2007)
http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-et-rutten12dec12,0,4115908.story?coll=cl-books-util
"Within the West's small but precious hoard of archaic literary epics, 'The Táin' is surely the most complex and least known outside its native Ireland."

Cutbacks threat to Irish language schools

(Dec 10, 2007)
http://www.independent.ie/education/latest-news/cutbacks-threat-to-irish-language-schools-1242076.html
"A serious threat has emerged to the future of Gaelscoileanna which are among the most successful second level schools in the country.
"The Irish Independent has learned that the Department of Education and Science Building Unit has proposed that no new second level Gaelscoilenna be built."

Determination is key to Gaelscoil student success

(Dec 10, 2007)
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/determination-is-key-to-gaelscoil-student-success-1242168.html
"The principal of one of the most successful Gaelscoileanna in the country claims one of the reasons his school sends so many pupils on to third level education is commitment from parents, teachers and pupils."

Letters: Lip service can't save Irish

(Dec 9, 2007)
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/lip-service-cant-save-irish-1241705.html
"Sir -- The Irish State since its foundation has presided over the virtual annihilation of the Irish language, a feat never achieved in history despite hundreds of years of repression and occupation including Cromwell and the Penal Laws."

Green light for Irish language signs

(Dec 7, 2007)
http://www.ballymoneytimes.co.uk/news/Green-light-for-Irish-language.3567593.jp
“History was made in Ballymoney Council on Monday night when the Unionist-controlled local authority agreed to erect bilingual signs in Irish in parts of the borough.”

'Kings' On General Release In Northern Ireland

(Dec 7, 2007)
http://www.4rfv.co.uk/industrynews.asp?id=69475
"Ireland's Official Submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 80th Annual Academy Awards (Oscars) has gone on general release this weekend."
Also:
Kings ransom as acclaimed Irish film is released
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/news/article3231468.ece

Nuacht move to Connemara

(Dec 6, 2007)
http://www.galwaynews.ie/2147-nuacht-move-connemara
"RTÉ’s Irish language television news service is to be located to the TG4 studio headquarters in the Connemara Gaeltacht with an investment programme of over €2m in new technology."

Letters: Irish important in the courts

(Dec 6, 2007)http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/irish-important-in-the-courts-1239259.html
"It seems a pity that barristers and solicitors will not require any Irish in the future."

Waterford Television Company punches above its weight in National competition

(Dec 5, 2007)
http://www.waterford-today.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1719&Itemid=10087&ed=140
"Nemeton Television has just won two awards in the prestigious Gradaim Gnó na Gaeltachta. The event aims to promote the spirit of entrepreneurship in the Gaeltacht."

Colleges drop language requirement for science

(Dec 5, 2007)
http://www.independent.ie/education/latest-news/colleges-drop-language-requirement-for-science-1238357.html
"Students will find it easier to get into science courses after two universities yesterday revealed they are to drop the entry requirement for a third modern language, such as French or German.
"However applicants will still need English and Irish to get into science -- any move to drop the Irish language requirement would meet with fierce resistance."

Opinion: What Cromwell couldn't kill, we will

(Dec 2, 2007)
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/what-cromwell-couldnt-kill-we-will-1234600.html
"More savage than the famine and more merciless than Oliver Cromwell, the persistent neglect of the Irish language by successive governments may be about to achieve what these two scourges tried but failed to do: The effective death of Irish as a living language."