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    Gaelic is a wonderful language, but many people don't have knowledge
    of the language. English would allow for wider communication, because of this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by anon361 View Post
    There you go again, it might as well be so but it still wouldn't seem so
    LOL! Well, like I say, it's only foreign in the sense that most people don't understand it, but of course it is the native tongue of Ireland.

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    Quote Originally Posted by samlad View Post
    Look Sammy not interested in statistics I know where i came from and what I am a true Irish man from the emerald isle we had to listen to this shit a 100 years ago my great-grandfather got beaten to a pulp for speaking his language let's not go the statistics road buddy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fitzy View Post
    Look Sammy not interested in statistics I know where i came from and what I am a true Irish man from the emerald isle we had to listen to this shit a 100 years ago my great-grandfather got beaten to a pulp for speaking his language let's not go the statistics road buddy.
    Easy tiger. My relatives are all Irish as well and my grandfather probably fought alongside yours.

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    Quote Originally Posted by samlad View Post
    Yes, I agree. The point I am really trying to make is that most people in Ireland don't actully speak Irish, so from their own perspectives, it would seem to be so.
    Have you been to the west of Ireland the majority of people speak the Irish language in everyday life.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fitzy View Post
    Have you been to the west of Ireland the majority of people speak the Irish language in everyday life.
    How about the country as a whole?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fitzy View Post
    Have you been to the west of Ireland the majority of people speak the Irish language in everyday life.
    actually thats simply not true mate...perhaps you mean connemara and even there they speak english a lot of the time

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    Quote Originally Posted by samlad View Post
    Easy tiger. My relatives are all Irish as well and my grandfather probably fought alongside yours.
    It's funny that my great-grandfather fought for Ireland and his son my grandfather was a pilot in the RAF it's funny how history comes around.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fitzy View Post
    It's funny that my great-grandfather fought for Ireland and his son my grandfather was a pilot in the RAF it's funny how history comes around.
    Indeed. My father's from Antrim, my mother Dublin. That's me fecked, as I've said before

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    Quote Originally Posted by benin View Post
    actually thats simply not true mate...perhaps you mean connemara and even there they speak english a lot of the time
    I would expect you to say that.

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