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An Ghaeilge ina cnámh spairne i mBaile Meánach

Bhí raic ann le linn chruinniú míosúil de chuid Chomhairle Bhaile Mheánach ag tús na seachtaine agus an deontas don Ciste Craolacháin Gaeilge a phlé ag an comhairle. Ritheadh rún fríd ag maíomh gur ‘cur amú acmhainní’ é an deontas don Ciste Craolacháin

Cuireadh i leith le linn an chruinniú go raibh an Ghaeilge ‘dead’ agus ‘divisive’. Cé gur buaileadh an chéad rún a cuireadh roimh an comhairle ag an Comhairleoir Robin Stirling ach ritheadh rún leasaithe a chuir an DUP chun cinn, ag maíomh ...

"Ballymena Borough Council believes that the actions of HM Government regarding additional funding for the Irish Language was a negative throwback to the inequalities of Direct Rule, and further it was unjustified in a time of economic recession and calls upon the Northern Ireland Assembly Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure to explore (a] ways to redress the potential for language inequality and (b] ways of preventing further such waste of public resources."

I rith na díospóireachta mhaigh Councillor Roy Gillespie ‘The majority population in Northern Ireland has no interest in the Irish language’ agus ‘The Irish campaign has replaced the bomb and the bullet’.

Chuir Declan O'Loan ón SDLP in iúl don tUasal Gillespie áfach go raibh bunús Gaeilge le sloinne s’aige féin, Mac Giolla Easpaig ar ndóigh agus mhaith seisean go raibh an rún bunaithe ar an aineolas.