Most Irish don't even speak it, let alone fluently. Doesn't help that they're further fractured into multiple rather distinct dialects. Only like 2% use it daily. Flooding the country with 3rd worlders who sure as shit won't learn it doesn't exactly help either.
She probably would have to hire a translator to write her speech. Then hire another translator to translate it back to English in parliament.
40% claim they speak Irish. If you poke them about it further, 4% say they speak it very well, which lines up with another stat, 4% who say they speak Irish daily outside of the education system.
The percentage of fluent children and teenagers is higher because Gaelic-medium education is relatively popular (~10% of primary school students ), plus all those who are fluent because Irish is a second language taught in all other schools, but yeah probably fewer than 2% use it at home as their main language.
Expect the invaders to start complaining that speaking Irish in Ireland is racist.
Personally, I wouldn't even date someone who dosen't speak my native language. A shame the Irish largely gave-up theirs.
Most Irish don't even speak it, let alone fluently. Doesn't help that they're further fractured into multiple rather distinct dialects. Only like 2% use it daily. Flooding the country with 3rd worlders who sure as shit won't learn it doesn't exactly help either.
She probably would have to hire a translator to write her speech. Then hire another translator to translate it back to English in parliament.
Then hire a BBC pidgin English translator for the new Irish audience
40% claim they speak Irish. If you poke them about it further, 4% say they speak it very well, which lines up with another stat, 4% who say they speak Irish daily outside of the education system.
The percentage of fluent children and teenagers is higher because Gaelic-medium education is relatively popular (~10% of primary school students ), plus all those who are fluent because Irish is a second language taught in all other schools, but yeah probably fewer than 2% use it at home as their main language.
Expect the invaders to start complaining that speaking Irish in Ireland is racist.
Personally, I wouldn't even date someone who dosen't speak my native language. A shame the Irish largely gave-up theirs.
Gonna take this opportunity to plug a project that I think represents a positive effort to correct that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A6__HssHW8