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10 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Anger as cuts to schoo... · 5 replies · +11 points

It doesn't matter a jot whether all the Catholic schools are on one side of the river and all the protestant schools are on the other side if they are not mixed.

10 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Anglo-Irish links \'at... · 0 replies · +2 points

The Queen's historic visit to the Republic in 2011 made an "extraordinary" impact on dealings between the nations. Indeed it was magical and great to see relations at an all-time high where they should be.

10 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Culture Minister Caral... · 1 reply · -4 points

As culture minister does she know? She has again admitted on the BBC Arts Programme to never having attended a live play.

10 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Culture Minister Caral... · 1 reply · -1 points

It is also hard to get over the stupidity of elected representatives who believe the world is 6000 years old or is it 10,000 years.

10 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Culture Minister Caral... · 3 replies · -1 points

As I said before I have no problem with anyone speaking Irish. Just don't try to do it on a grand scale wasting public money when it doesn't work. Again I refer you to my comment on the ROI above.

10 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Culture Minister Caral... · 3 replies · 0 points

It may not be any skin off my nose but as a taxpayer it is my money being wasted with a lot more deserving causes to spend it on.

10 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Culture Minister Caral... · 5 replies · -2 points

I do not support either of the two backward factions in Stormont but I do have a right to voice an opinion. See my latest comment on the 1 billion euro spent every year on Irish in the ROI

10 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Culture Minister Caral... · 5 replies · -1 points

Government spending in the Republic of Ireland on teaching Irish is estimated to cost about €1 billion per annum.
While Gaeilgeorí may hate to hear it, the Irish language is functionally useless in the modern economy, and the Republic of Ireland 2011 census shows Irish now lags behind Polish in numbers of speakers who use the language daily outside of school. The fact Irish is not even the second most widely used language despite decades of State policy and funding towards propping it up should prove that the Irish language experiment has been an utter failure.

10 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Culture Minister Caral... · 7 replies · -4 points

I care because I am a taxpayer and I would rather see my money spent on something more beneficial to all the people of this benighted little state.

10 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Culture Minister Caral... · 9 replies · -1 points

How much is this campaign costing the taxpayer?
"The Irish language is at the heart of our society.”Is it all inclusive?
Having learned from the Irish language experience in the Republic of Ireland, will this also be a waste of money?
Do not get me wrong, I fully endorse the learning, writing, and speaking of Irish done privately not with public funds in NI where interest is only in a small part of one section of the community.
As a teenager in Ulster fifty years ago we always referred to the “crack”
Has Culture Minister Caral Ni Chuilin no idea that the word “craic is foreign, "pseudo-Gaelic" and a "bogus neologism."

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