Language Strike : MEP speaking Irish only at Parliament
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Member of European Parliament Liadh Ní Riada went on a language strike during Seachtain na Gaeilge (Irish Language Week) over the derogation of Irish in the EU and Irish institutions.
Irish is a full official language of the EU but the deragotaion (Council Regulation No 920/2005 of 13 June 2005) states that ‘the institutions of the European Union shall not be bound by the obligation to draft all acts in Irish and to publish them in that language in the Official Journal of the European Union’. - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Irish is the official language in Ireland and Ireland is part of the EU, so irish is a official language in the EU and it cannot be prohibited.
I mean no one speaks Irish neither in Ireland or in Parliament, so they can't understand even if they wanted to. Honestly for an Union as big as Europe you need as few languages as possible, unless of course 51% of Ireland decides to learn Irish overnight, then it kinda makes 'fair' sense... I mean here I am, typing in English just as everyone else, even though I'd probably rather use another language. But would you understand? No.
@@MultiSciGeek what you said is just untrue. 1.7 million people speak Irish. 98% of these live in ireland.
We have every right to be able to use our own language, whether it be in the dail or the european parliament, or anywhere for that matter
@@professorminstrels6460 For sure you do! It's just that a lot of people don't actually speak it. Only about 170k people actually speak Irish. The 1M+ rest of them speak it like Conor McGregor - enough to order water and ask to go to the toilet, enough to fulfil a nationalistic dream and show off on TV and that's about it... Trust me, I would love to see Ireland speak Irish, but unfortunately that's far from the reality. And there's no point in people arguing for a certain language when they themselves don't speak it... unless of course you wanna watch news in a foreign language, as ironic as that is... As for the European Parliament or whatever - the less languages the better. I hate English but still learnt it because very few people speak "my" language. And that's totally ok. Wanna change that? Stop writing to me in English and start exclusively using your unique exclusive language. Good luck lmao
@@MultiSciGeek you dont deal in facts and just make baseless claims so there is no point in carrying this on any further
@professorminstrels6460 you are being misleading though. That is only 40% of the Irish population that say that they can speak it. Only 2% population speak it daily. The other guy is right, the vast majority of Irish people barely speak or understand Gaelic.
For anyone wondering what she said - Basically she is saying - It is her basic right to use her native language. And when he states it is not allowed, she says it is undemocratic and she disagrees with him and that she is not going to speak in any other language, because Irish is her native language and she has the right to use it. She then says thank you but she's not going to speak.
For anyone wondering - Liadh grew up in the Gaeltacht (an Irish speaking region in Ireland), so Irish is her native tongue. I hope this helps for anyone lost in translation.
Your channel is a goldmine and GRMA for the transcript
this is disgusting. The Irish should not be EXPECTED to speak English. It was precisely this result the English were hoping for when they attempted to stamp out Irish language and culture.
The Irish are expected to speak English because around 90% of the country speaks English. Just like how there are no translators for occitan, Galician, or kashubian(all 3 of those have more native speakers than Irish, just so you're aware), the EU won't pay for Irish translators because outside of stunts like this, Irish is not really used in the European parliament.
@@user-vr2vf9ty2j The difference between Irish, Occitan, Galician and Kashubian is that Irish is an official language of an EU member state. All the official languages of the EU member states are official languages of the EU, hence Irish is one of the 24 official languages of the EU. It wouldn't matter if there were none native speakers remaining: as long as it's an official language of a member state, it's an official language of the EU. It's up to the legislators of the Republic of Ireland to decide - not the EU.
@@robinviden9148 And it's up to Ireland to find a way to save Irish and keep speakers in existence, since Germany clearly doesn't have any. If there aren't enough Irish speakers, then the translation will not happen because that's how reality works regardless of laws, and I doubt there are many people fluent in Irish legalese.
@@user-vr2vf9ty2jIs iad ár ndlíthe na dlíthe is sine san Eoraip!
@@user-vr2vf9ty2j Exactly. The Irish government is happy with token gestures like translations while the issues leading to the decline of the language in its traditional strongholds are left ignored.
I’m from Belarus. We have the same problem with our Belarusian language as you with Irish. I’m so proud of this woman!
wdym belarus isn't in the eu
@@kenlandon6130 they meant the belarusian language has a similar situation as irish, where in belarusian case, they tend to speak russian more than their own language, same as how the irish people speak english rather than gaelic.
@@kenlandon6130They’re Europeans
Belarussian is russian
@@bennycoyac8327 no it's not
This is a horrific incident, the parliament should respect every national language! Irish is the language of the Republic of Ireland and should be respected and translated just like every other language in the Parliament. It is a language of a nation and of a culture! This is pure disrespect!
@The505Guys nobody gives a shite about the language anyway, stop blaming foreigners when irish people think that you're full of shit
The505Guys
Sorry I am an outsider however a linguist. measures could be implemented regardless of percentages of immigration. However, do you think if there is a vote for or against revival measures of Irish
, the Irish would go for it? Just curious
Precisely because the English prohibited it for so long.
Agreed.
Even as a Canadian who has never left his home country, but with Irish roots on both sides of my genealogy lines, I am all for a Gaeilge revival. I am currently studying the language via DuoLingo and although it proves difficult at times, it is a beautiful language that should never be forgotten. I vow to do my best to keep the language alive and implore others to do the same. Go raibh maith agat.
Require learning of the Irish language for anyone who wants an Irish passport but doesn't qualify based on ancestry. Polish, Arabic, Indian, African, etc immigrants who move to Ireland will learn the language and help revive it in order to become Irish citizens.
We Irish joined the EU for many reasons, but the primary reason for our membership is the protection and survival of our ethnicity. The protection of our language is non-negotiable.
@msmissy6888 We will never stop struggling for the survival of our language, our culture, our race. The struggle only ends when we've all been exterminated.
Will the EU ensure your people, decendants of my own ancestors, Will retain majority status in Ireland? Will you be led by Irish people?
@msmissy68881.7 million speakers isn't a dead language you moron
@msmissy6888 Get in a ditch and stay there.
"the primary reason for our membership is the protection and survival of our ethnicity " - so how's that working out for you then!!
And you're surprised? The EU doesn't give a shit about Irish. Still, how dare they, how very dare they stop someone speaking an official EU language. They are all equal under the eu.
The Irish don't give a shit about Irish, beyond symbolic and token gestures.
If they did they wouldn't have allowed the Gaeltacht Irish speaking areas to be gentrified with local Irish speakers unable to get houses or jobs (these areas have had the highest rates of emigration and rural poverty since the States foundation)
You’ll notice at 0:16 on the left it says “......LAIMINT NA hEORPA”.
This is a great example of how the EU works
No it isn't? It's nearly impossible to find Irish translators, and they don't want to work for the eu parliament because they rarely ever need them to translate from Irish to English in the first place
Imagine how we Catalans have it because our language is not even official at EU level. The only Spaniards with other language that can speak in their own language in Parliament are Galicians because it is so similar to Portuguese and the Portuguese translators translate them.
Get andorra in the eu
Your acting like catalans have it worse LOL
Großartig! Die irische Vertretung muss selbstverständlich irisch reden! Wenn die EU zu dämlich ist einen Übersetzer zu stellen hat sie eben Pech gehabt.
Tiocfaidh ár lá!!!
Gerry, why leave Sinn féin? You still have another few years in you.
How ya keeping Gerry lad
Gan aistritheoirí na Gaeilge. Cá dtéann ár gcuid airgid?
Was gonna like this comment, but I really like the number 32!
Whenever I add 26 and 6 in my calculator it gives me 1
Disgusting attitude of the EU!
Dominique Beaulieu Ireland should consider leaving maybe or ask EU have translators.
No, disgusting attitude from that MEP who perfectly knows there're no translators for her language. If she wants to speak Irish she better firstly find Irish translators for every single language that is officially used in that parliament. She will have a hard time in doing so, since barely no one speaks Irish in her own country.
@@georgezee5173 No, it is the responsibility of EU to find Irish translator in one pivot language, which is quite easy.
@@dominiquebeaulieu no its not leave if you dont like it gaelic is dead and shes just being difficult
@@Mo-hc9lc Gaelic is an official language of EU. That's all!
I learned irish but its different when hearing a native speaks as opposed to learning them
It this way in every language for the new speakers (who learned through school rather that family space).
That's because phonetics aren't taught at all... And because the teachers aren't trained in phonetics and university students aren't required to know any to pass their degrees!
@Sturm [ʃtʊɐ̯m] She says she is, but has a significant English accent, though many natives apparently do
@@martinfrostnas6610 none of us have English accents.
@@donall5302 Most L1 Gaeilgeoirí I've found to use the English R and L, as well as thick T, which aren't native to any of the dialects. That said, the thing about Liadh Ní Riada, if I'm informed correctly, is that her parents weren't L1 speakers, but adopted Irish as the family language upon settling down in Ballyvourney, hence Liadh grew up only knowing that until starting school. The latter fact baffles me in particular as Ballyvourney already then wasn't majority Irish speaking according to Wikipedia.
Bravo. Vive la langue gaélique
Behind him there's a phrase in Irish 🤣 Why can't I speak the language I want? We're in Europe, there's a different language every 200 kilometres, do you want to kill them? Awful...
Ireland forever!!!!!! Very proud to speak the language!
The EU parliament not having a translator for one of its members’ languages is quite shocking. I bet they had French, German and Italian there.
So glad she didn't revert to another language.
It’s because there is a lack of translators and the EU is finding it hard to find some to work for them.
Well, shit, I know what language I'm learning!
Is anyone here able to translate what Liadh Ní Riada was saying here, especially at the end after having been interrupted?
Thank you, I was still interested in that. Kind of you to translate for me :)
Right at the end she says 'Nílim chun a labhairt i mBéarla. Go raibh maith agat.'. (I'm not going to speak in English. Thank you).
@An Devineach: Is trua nach bhfuilim in Éirinn faoi láthair. Tógfaidh mé gloine pórtair anocht - b'fhéidir ceann eile le haghaidh tusa chomh maith!
yes she said that she was only prepared to speak in her own native tongue and would not speak any other language.
She also asked to go to the toilet "An bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an leithres "
I am disgusted. Tá díoma orm gur tharla seo! Shíl mé i gcónaí go raibh níos mó meas ag pharlaimint na heorpa agus ag an aontas Eorpach ar an dteanga seo, is léir nach raibh an ceart agam agus caithfimid deireadh a chur leis an seicteachas seo go buan. Dochreidte dímheasúil!
Mulligan71991 English - Im ashamed that this happened! I always thought that the Parlaimint of Europe and the European Union had more respect for these languages. It's clear that i was incorrect. And we have to end this discrimination.
@Mulligan71991 that last sentence says incredibly disrespectful
@Mulligan71991 Irish is a recognised language of the EU and is one of the 2 official languages of Ireland (Irish and English- Irish is the first). As of 2016 almost 40% of people in the Republic of Ireland claimed to be able to speak Irish. This is a huge increase from the previously estimated 90,000 people. It shocks and upsets me as someone living in northern Ireland where we have very few facilities and services available in Irish as of now ( thankfully more are being made available) to hear people from the republic disrespect their own language and the people who speak it in such a way. Irish is that woman's native language just like Spanish is for Spanish speakers and English is for English speakers and so on... Many speakers in the EU are in fact bilingual but translation services are still provided. I don't care how many translators there are in the world, if 50 people are in an audience to listen to a native Irish speaker a translator should be provided.
@Mulligan71991 Disgusted at your remarks and it is not true that everyone in Ireland had better English than Irish. Take Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh for example. She was brought up in Canada in Irish and later moved to the Connemara, Galway Gaeltacht and for years she was told that her English simply was not good enough to record a show in English and that should would have to limit herself to Irish langauge media.
Mulligan71991 oh god your comment makes you look ridiculously ignorant. I pity anybody who was unfortunate enough to be left in a position to raise you. Jokes on you considering Irish is now an official language in the EU therefore there are translators being paid for it. Your idiotic comment on 5 translators just shows how deprived of an eduction you must be. Every student in Ireland must learn Irish meaning the vast majority of Ireland does have a certain level of Irish. Ironic how you would say she’s embarrassing herself when you’re the one on TH-cam showing the world what kind of dumb uneducated buffoon you truly are. Please do us all a favour and get yourself a decent education. How did your parents mess up so badly with you? They must be ashamed. What an utter disgrace
I also understand my comment comes across as very harsh and aggressive but when you start off talking to somebody by saying “listen here paddy” in a derogatory manner do not expect respect. Try being a nice person next time and your point might be better well accepted.
The Irish language is a an important language. Thus the Irish language ought to be respected in the European Union Parliament. Éire go bragh!!!! 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Support from Croatia 🇮🇪🇭🇷❤
@@danac1 Thanks 🙏 ❤
Translation is a meaningless token gesture when there is a language crisis in the Irish speaking areas of the country due to housing and job/emigration issues for native Irish speakers which have been ongoing since the sixties.
The Irish State needs to get their priorities straight and move from symbolic token gestures to actually being protectors of the minority language (the native speakers of the Gaeltacht areas) communities.
Something that should have always been a priority for them.
Require that an Irish speaker teach an immersion class starting as soon as children go to school. In every school. Continue to teach at least one class a semester in Irish, throughout primary school. Within 10 years, you’ll have pretty much reversed the trend of the language dying out, and ensured the language can be completely revived, among the whole populace, in a little over a generation. This isn’t difficult.
Dear god, Israel revived an entire language amongst a highly diverse population, most with no knowledge of the literary language at all. Beyond just school immersion, but including adults. In about one generation as well- because they put the effort in.
@The505Guys I think you're right to some degree, especially as far as the diversity in Israel. That's not to say it wasn't a major logistical challenge to overcome. It also helps that Israel developed one of the first "intensive language" programs, which is similar to how I was taught Latin, in the 'ulpan' absorption centres for new arrivals. I guess my point is that is definitely can be done, if there's a will to do so.
And yes, that's the perennial obstacle to overcome. Several of the comments here bespeak of a mindset that "Irish is stupid/dead/not useful, and I already speak English. Just let it die."
It's a bit sad that there's appears to be more enthusiasm for the language in North America, than there is in the mother country itself... And about just as many speakers there.
The biggest problem is that the Irish expect the government to solve the problem. They already mandate it in school. The people must learn Irish. Irish people love the idea of gaeilge but they don’t want to put in the extra effort to learn and use it. There are lots of good residieses online - Duolingo, Pimsleur Irish, classes from Dublin city university through future learn, the TH-cam channels gaeilge I mo chri agus Irish with Dane
People need to stop looking to the government to do everything for them.
C word that's what that man is
Arrogant boss man at the centre of Europe. And a brave little lady from the rural Atlantic fringe.
Good on youse keeping Gaelge going, I think we Scots have the duty to do the same with our Gàidhlig, love Ireland and our Celtic family🏴🇮🇪🏴(no Cornwall Britanny or Isle of Man😭) one day the Celts will be free
Glorious language. Should be promoted. The EU treating Ireland like a doormat these days. Shame.
Cén Fàth nìl sí arsa, póg mo thóin?
Chance wasted!
Is maith liom é 👏🏻 👏🏻 💚🇮🇪🙌🥰
Iontach nach bhfuil? Ár teanga náisiúnta, ach níl cead againn é a labhairt, agus muid páirteach don A.E. Agus cinnte ba chuma leo chun duine a fháil chun aistriúcháin a dhéanamh. Seafóid ollmhór.
Is cuma leo sa foc fén Ghaelainn. Ach ar aon nós, is tionscadal i bhfad ró-ardaidhmeannach í an tAontas Eorpach. Tá difríochtaí idir na Ballstáit feiceálach, agus mar sin tá an Eoraip (ar an iomlán) ró chasta chun an tionscadal Eorpach a chothú. Ina theannta sin, níl an AE ach tionscail a chruthaigh na "fat cats" saibhir chun éirí níos saibhre. Is cuma leo fé na leasa ag an lucht oibre nó na daoine gan dídean. Is é an caipitleachas an rud is tábhachtaí dar leis an AE, agus ná dein dearmad ar an fíric sin.
Haver fuair tú an stains as do gúna fós?
Used to be the members could use any language except there own.. Am I mistaken? did it change?
They don't even respect the mighty Breton language! 😾
@MC King Yes
@MC King Why?
I haven't chosen to be born Breton.
But I am glad to speak it and sing it 😊
@MC King Well, I don't think it's especially cool to be a minority, and also feel lonely.
100 years ago there were over a million Breton speakers in lower-Brittany, now only about 200 000
God bless you for keeping the old traditions alive.
Maith thú, a Liadh! An Ghaelainn teanga náisiúnta na hÉireann!
When will Ireland convince
Microsoft, Apple, Goggle and Amazon to adopt Irish.
They don't know Welsh either 😂
She should speak irish as if a Basque speaks Basque or a Breton from britanny (france) speaks Breton and whatever languages there are that man is a c word
Cén fáth níl measíonn an EU an teanga nGaeilge?
Irish subtitle please
EU fascism!
Hardly. It’s snobbery, though. If you aren’t economically, militarily, or industrially “important” in the EU, you’re looked down upon. Deemed ultimately insignificant. Just another notch on the EU’s bedpost of European unification.
Which is also why the EU has continued to bend over backwards to accommodate the UK even after Brexit. Britain is still a major player, and the Union doesn’t want to burn that bridge. They do more for them than they do for an enthusiastic member state. Ireland has nothing significant to contribute but its name, in their view. Merely membership; that’s all.
exact!
Well done!
On one hand, your international body ought to know the language is a sticking-point for the Irish in particular, so if you want to accomadate and ingratiate them you need to have that shite sorted in short order.
On the other hand, if finding qualified translators is such an issue that this is a problem in the first place - then I think the lady doth literally protest too much.
Idk, maybe it'd be seen as a slight if the Irish have to supply their own interpreters yet other countries dont, but if the end goal is to have Irish as a working language in the EU then it'd be helpful to have some lads and lasses in the wings to facilitate the workload regardless.
That's just me being a pragmatist, though. I was afflicted with pragmatism at an early age and it's troubled me ever since.
YOU GO GURL! ("Nílim chun a labhairt i mBéarla. Go raibh maith agat"). I am American and I can translate the Irish. But the Parliamentary panel ? NOPE! Disgraceful.
Good for her! These things will only change through protests like this.
How about u write ur comment in Irish if ur so adamant about it
@@peterii3512 Why should I?
@@MatthewMcVeagh then why should they?
@@peterii3512 Because Irish is a national language of an EU member country and an official language of the EU.
Well done ...love it
Chuir an eachtra tús le reibiliún i gcoinne an rialtais.
Gaeilge.
Gaelainn
Erse.
English - the greatest gift the British ever gave to the Irish, apart from The Common Travel Area
When will Ireland recognise Catalan as an independent state.
He should be allowed to speak it as an official language of the EU they have or should have translators laid on for that week (if notice was given). He has a point though if none of the others in the chamber can understand what she is saying. I am British and while I did not like the incident of Enda Kenny and Mick Wallace as it was aimed at belittling Wallace this is different. The EU parliament is flawed as an institution anyway and the EU seems to pick and choose when it wants to enforce rules. Look at how they parachuted Selmayr into his role of head of Commission bureaucracy.
Our taoiseach speaking Irish in the dáil on the only day a year dedicated to speaking Irish was intended to belittle Wallace. Are you taking the piss
As an Irishman, this is cringe. She knows nobody understands her and almost certainly speaks English in her daily life.
Ur cringe
Ask yourself, why is she speaking English and not Irish, could it have anything to do with hundreds of years of cultural genocide by a foreign power?
Why does your language make you cringe?
@@wfcoaker1398 more so her pseudonationalistic pandering. She has nothing to say about replacement migration and instead speaks in a language not even Irish people understand because it's bAsEd.
Irish is an OFFICIAL language of the 4th Reich and should NEVER BE DENIED.
Níor raibh fadhb ann le teanga na Gaeilge i bParliamint na hEorpa, an fadhb arb é nach raibh ann aistritheoir.
Áfach, tá Éire sclábhaithe don Aontas Eorpach, ba cheart di fágáil agus a todhchaí féin a shocrú.
they take our money but wont let us speak
😂 that’s hilarious they speak English when we aren’t even in it. Even better that Irish have to talk it.
So, the EU who pilloried the UK for it's historical proscription of Irish (long ago lifted) which has never applied to current day Ireland has decided to take the retrograde step of proscribing Irish now. Irish is the official language of Ireland and as such should be fully recognised by the EU. If the EU continue to proscribe the official language of one of its member states and treat it as a second class member then, if I was the Irish I'd be seriously rethinking my country's membership.
I think you don't know situation.
@@Motofanable You are at liberty to think what you like, as am I.
Horrendous
What a boss
Seasaimis an fhód. Mo ghairm thú, a Liadh
bravo
Ironically Na Riada would have the same issue in Ireland. As only approximately 100k people speak Irish as a language of communication. Of which she is one. The fact is if she tried this with the vast majority of ordinary people in Ireland they would struggle to converse at best. Also there are few in the Irish Parliament (Dáil Éireann)who have fluent Irish. Most get by with using symbolic phrases or reading by rote from a page. The irony is Sinn Féin’s current leader who would have learnt Irish at School (Mary Lou McDonald) has a limited grasp of the Irish language. She depends on reading from a page, uses simple words, or breaks into English.
She wouldn't have the same problem here in Ireland, because we have the legal right to use Irish for official purposes or public services. Irish is constitutionally the first language of the state.
And there is no irony with Mary Lou not having good Irish. Mary Lou isn't an Irish speaker. Liadh is and grew up in the Gaeltacht. She is attempting to use her native tongue, which is an official language in the EU for EU business.
Whose fault is it if the majority of Irish can't speak their language? Certainly not the Irish themselves. It's an issue of the centuries of colonisation.
@@lamalama9717always the English , get a life dim.
When will Ireland stand up and enter a song in eurovision in its own language.
Smart
What the Irish and speak Irish shame
Maith thú!
🇮🇪💪
LEAVE THE EU VERY SIMPLE
wtf!!!
Either make Irish the true official language of Ireland (all public services and media delivered purely in Irish) or move on.
"A merde"
"i mBearla "
Isn't The Official Language of The Republic of Ireland = = English ?
I'm Only Asking, NOT Insisting 👍
Yes I Know Irish Gaelic is the Native Language BUT Government & Business is Usually English 1st
Irish Gaelic 2nd
1% of the Irish People Speak it Fluently 👍
European parliament,no wonder nothing gets done
Pick one language whichever it may be and get on with it and actually do things that you are elected to do and stop these petty squabbles.
Gualtieri is an illiterate who is barely able to speak Italian, his native language... What can you expect from someone like him? Could he understand the importance of the preservation of endangered languages? Could he be respectful about the linguistic diversity? As we can see, he will not...
She’s being awkward to make a point. Her smirking colleague says it all.
She said in the video that Irish is her native language and asks for a someone else
How does this work ? The language of Ireland is english .
No, it is Irish.
@@dominiquebeaulieu . the accent is irish but the language is english .that's why they speak English words .
@@kendonnis5322 The historical language of Ireland is called Irish and is a Celtic language. While native speakers are now a minority, it remains an official language of the country and the sole national language.
Irish is the native language of Ireland though? I really do hope what you're saying is just blissful ignorance and not without bigoted intent
@@aaronruddell7448 the accent is irish but the language is English. Wherever you call it an official language of Ireland or not ,doesn't take away the fact that they speak English. Their 2nd language is an adopted language just like The americans and australians speaking English are speaking an adopted language.
Who cares? The Gaeltacht is much more important. Soon there might be no Irish speakers!!
If the Irish language was that important to the Irish they would all be fluent by now. Why hasn't this happened?
because of centuries of british occupation and assimilation. same reason why no natives in america speak their indigenous language. you ether spoke english or didnt survive
@@hadiisaboss5307 But Ireland has been independent for 100 years. Continued use of English must now be a choice - even a preference?
@@KR-us9pj do you know how hard it is having a country switch languages? Gaelic has very little in common to English so already getting millions to learn it would be time consuming but then changing all forms of media, school, work, law, government to Gaelic would make it even harder. They're adding Gaelic back to Ireland it just takes time
@@KR-us9pjIreland has not been independent for 100 years, only part of it.
Why isn’t the 26 counties fluent after 100 years? I believe the truth is Ireland is happy being an English speaking nation. Anyone who speaks Irish alone would be at a serious disadvantage today - even within Ireland itself. All young nations seeks to do things differently to flaunt their new found independence. It’s was no different to pairing post boxes green.
This is so stupid. By using Irish like this you are prohibiting comunication rather than helping it. That is how a language dies. It was pure disrespectful to do that. English would have been much easier for all.
would have been easier to stay under British rule too
stfu
No need for Irish and Maltese, they're silly languages anyway and everyone speaks English
Shut up clown
Stupid behavior of this woman.
5mnz7fg your stupid
More like stupid parliament wont respect the sovereignty and dignity of the irish people and language and rather treats them like a colony
Your the stupid one
Tá amadán tú
And EU has the audacity to give levtures to others