A very heartfelt go raibh maith agat and danke schön from Carbondale Recreation to all the staff members, sponsors, volunteers, entertainers, vendors and patrons of the 2016 Celticfest and Oktoberfest ...

Kevin Myers ('Let's debunk the myth of Irish as a living language', Irish Independent, February 23) must really stop encouraging us speakers of Irish. He has been the most successful promoter of Irish ...

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TEACHING Irish through mobile-phone text may be new, but native speakers have developed their own SMS lingo. Examples are: 7an (seachtain, week); an8 (anocht, tonight); grma (go raibh maith agat, ...