A colleague was telling me about a little boy in his children’s Irish language school who refused to speak Irish. He was hauled into the head’s office for a chat. “Why aren’t you speaking Irish?” she asked him. “Well, a mhúinteoir,” said the 5 year old, “say what you like, it’s a Béarla world out there.”
He’ll go far.
NÃl mar a siltear a bhiotar. Beidir go mbeidh an buachaill seo posta le cailÃn as an Gaeltacht, agus ni bheidh sé abalta bi ag caint leis a clann.
Ach b’fheidir go mbeadh Béarla acu freisin…