Something struck me over the past week as being quite amusing, it has been our reaction
as a nation to the utterances of the visiting heads of state namely Queen Elizabeth ii and
President Barrack Obama in our native language. In the tradition of Sile Seoige we almost
had a National Orgasm when Obama uttered the words "Is feider linn ".Much the same
when the Queen said "A Uachtarain agus a Chairde". It was as if our language was the
most important thing in the world to us.
What i find so hypocritical about this is that if u had a poll of that huge crowd that cheered
to rafters when Obama used an Irish phrase, about the Irish language they i am certain by
a huge majority dismiss it as being a useless dead language that should not take a prominent
place in our education system. This is not about the Irish language in particular but it just
happened to stick out as a great example of our shallowness over the past week we will use
something to show ourselves as being patriotic when it suits us but as soon as it requires a
bit of effort we abandon ship