Here's the judgement from yesterday's High Court decision which stood over a 1737 ban on Irish in the Northern courts.
Seo an breithiúnas as an chás cúirte, ni féidir Domhnall O'Cathain a mholadh de bharraíocht as theacht an bealach uilig as Meiriceá le bheith mar fhinné ar an tséanadh cirt seo. Sin an cineál tacaíochta a athróidh cúrsaí.
Thursday, July 09, 2009
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GRMA, a Mháirtín!
Maidir leis an gcás seo, an feidir aisghairm an drochdhlí a iarraidh ar mbaill SDLP, Plaid Cymru (PC), SNP agus Respect den Pharlaimint?
Má chreidimíd iad, is iad na Gaeil is teise atá tofa chuig Westminster, na bail ó Shinn Féin, páirtí ar féidir leo imeacht go Downing Street uair ar bith is mian leo, cén fath nach n-iarrann tú orthu san beart a dhéanamh de réir a mbriathar ar son na Gaeilge?
It is amazing how Concubhar can work the words Sinn Fein into just about any subject.
What a wonderful talent.
Hard to believe that the Brits had to rely on an obscure 300-year hang-over from the Penal Days to delay the inevitable.
Read the decision in full. It should be framed and hung on the wall, along with another fine piece of British legislation, the 1701 Act of Settlement, as prime examples of British justice at its very best.
Please correct me, if I am mistaken.
But I have not seen or heard a peep from the Sinn Fein leadership about this High Court decision against the Irish language.
There now seems to be a well established pattern. Nothing said when La Nua was shut down. Nothing when Foinse was closed but later a belated press release demanding an urgent meeting with some faceless bureaucrats but no mention of Foinse being possibly reopened.
I presume the silence from the SF leadership translates into their willing acceptance that this was the right and proper decision.
This High Court decision obviously illustrates the total failure of Sinn Fein's policies.
Others know that Sinn Féin issued an immediate press statement and have been working for years to get rid of this law.
Anynomous is just telling porkies, which is why these people cannot and have not come up with an alternative to Sinn Féin - because they are dependant on misinformation.
Sinn Féineach Brodúil,
If Sinn Fein issued a press release, it certainly did not get any press coverage. I will stand corrected, if one was issued.
As for the alternatives to Sinn Fein, need I remind Sinn Féineach Brodúil that Sinn Fein blocked all funding to Gaeloiliuint, the organisation that helped found in conjunction with local communities dosens of gaelscoileanna.
Gaeloiliunt was the leading auuthority in educational matters till Sinn Fein created Comhairle to destroy the gaelscoil movement. Gaeloiliuint was community driven, independent, and cross-community, and that was intolerable to the SF leadership.
So that is why today there are no alternatives. Sinn Fein has no experise in educational matters as working class communities have found out to their detriment.
Sinn Fein needs to hang its head as low as one can get.
First, Gaeloiliuint, then the destruction of new gaelscoileanna and the closing of others, then La Nua and Foinse, and now this High Court decision.
If this isn't a pattern, I do not know what to call it.
I do know the children of Ulster have paid a terrible price for Sinn Fein's actions/inactions.
Sinn Féineach Bródúil has every reason to be proud of the achievements of Sinn Fein which are wide-ranging and numerous.
While I respect the right of the last 'anonymous' to hold his or her opinions, I question the motives behind what can only be described as a rant against the party, with little or no real facts to back up the accusations.
Nothing will be gained from being negative. It would be much better if you came up with creditable alternatives to Sinn Fein's present strategies.
If Mr. Reality would care to take a walk-about the Irish language community and the gaelscoileanna, he might be shocked to find out what is going on at ground level.
Over the past several years several schools have been shut down with a Sinn Fein Minister or two at the helm of the Department of Education. The first SF Ed Minister shut down 3 gaelscoileanna. More than several new schools have been stopped from opening by a Sinn Fein created organisation called Comhairle.
A new cross community university at Springvale in west Belfast, An Bradan Feasa, had all funding blocked by Sinn Fein board members on Foras. It subsequently closed as a result.
It would certainly appear that there is a deliberate campaign to destroy the gaelscoileanna, little by little. Without the gaelscoileanna, there is no need for an Irish Language Act.
The people who built the gaelscoileanna and the people in political power currently are on two sides of a very deep divide.
It has become quite clear that a number of state organisations have simply not worked regarding the Irish language. That has severly impinged on the ability of working class communities to improve by pulling their boot straps up.
Up until several years ago a gaelscoil opening up in a deprived area was among other things a little economic engine that grew year-by-year. A gaelscoil gave hope to a community that its children would have a better future than we did. It was the jewel in the crown of otherwise difficult areas. It provided inspiration to our young.
The children that attend gaelscoileanna have a different attitude than those who attend English schools. They have a different positive outlook on life. They have a self-developed sense of "community."
I would imagine the gaelscoil children are not involved in the anti-social behaviour so prevalent in so many communities now. The gaelscoil children have an inherent positive belief in themselves.
I think it is time to start over from scratch. We have two totally failed state Irish language institutions.
Those institutions need to be totally scrapped.
A new institution needs to be created or recreated composed of activists and doers not the naysayers who have no connection to working class communities.
Leadership means achieving the impossible. A tested and true model once existed in NI. We do not have to reinvent the wheel. All it requires is a minimum of vision.
Can Sinn Fein wrap its arms around that? I do not know.
This is not just an education matter. It is a social and economic concern of the highest degree.
If you have a failed institution, you bin it. We do not have a future as it currently exists. We are supposed to be much smarter than this.
The deprived children from the working class community demand positive action. Time to start over.
Cad chuige an ciunás ó lucht tacaíochta Shinn Féin nuair a chuirtear fíricí agus líomhaintí loma os a gcomhair maidir le teip Chomhailre agus an Fhorais? Ní 'rant' atá i ndruidim Lá, Foinse agus an Bradán Feasa ach fíricí crua.
Ach caithfear bheith dearfach. Maoinigh Coláiste Speirín agus an Ghaelscoil úr i nDoire láithreach. Caithfear Meánscoil a bhunú i nDoire agus in Ard Mhacha. Níor cheart an Ghaeilge agus an Gaeloideachas a shéanadh ar dhuine ar bith!!
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