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Referendum

Squag1

Can't remember....
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This has now started a whole north south debate. No doubt being used by some to stir things.
 

Centaur

Site Pedant
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IMHO it for each country to sort out and I am certain TM will not stick her nose into what is an internal affair for NI. If Sinn Fein are so keen to deal with the issue they should drop their red lines and get on with forming an assembly instead of holding the country to ransom over a nearly dead language. Wales which has 20% of the population currently using Welsh are finding that in spite of throwing colossal amounts of money at education the use of the language is dying out. Young peeps are not interested. NI has currently 0.3% of the peeps who have "some knowledge" of Gaelic. If people want to learn Gaelic then by all means provide classes but do not seek to impose it on everyone for nationalistic sentiments. Flogging a dead horse comes to mind. :D
 

Quiney

Registered User
IMHO it for each country to sort out and I am certain TM will not stick her nose into what is an internal affair for NI. If Sinn Fein are so keen to deal with the issue they should drop their red lines and get on with forming an assembly instead of holding the country to ransom over a nearly dead language. Wales which has 20% of the population currently using Welsh are finding that in spite of throwing colossal amounts of money at education the use of the language is dying out. Young peeps are not interested. NI has currently 0.3% of the peeps who have "some knowledge" of Gaelic. If people want to learn Gaelic then by all means provide classes but do not seek to impose it on everyone for nationalistic sentiments. Flogging a dead horse comes to mind. :D

The Isle of Man did the same. Its went from a handful is people speaking it, to being taught in every school. However it's of absolutely no use in a modern world.
 

Jaws

Corporal CockUp
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Another load of people that do not understand the word democracy
 
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