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.
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.
40% claim they speak Irish. If you poke them about it further, 4% say they speak it very well, which lines up with another stats, 4% who say theys peak 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.
The percentage of fluent children is higher because Gaelic-medium education is relatively popular (~10% of primary school students ), but yeah probably fewer than 2% use it at home.
Expect the invaders to start complaining that speaking Irish in Ireland is racist.