Posts Tagged ‘ Irish Language ’

SNAG Póst: AE Conradh um Athchóiriú (Conradh um Liospóin)

March 4, 2008
By Stephen
SNAG Póst: AE Conradh um Athchóiriú (Conradh um Liospóin)

Tá Seachatin Na Gaeilge ar siúl 3 – 17 Mártha. Tá suim mór agam sa teanga, agus Smaoineamh mé go scríobh me póst faoi Condadh um Liospóin as Gaeilge. (Tá mo phostaí as Bearla anseo) Céard é an Conradh um Athchóiriú? Tógann an Conradh um Athchóiriú cuid mhaith dá bhfuil ann ó Bhunnreacht na hEorpa a chomhaontaíodh in 2004 faoi Uchtaránacht ba hÈireann ar an AE. Is é atá sa Chronradh nua ná sraith leasuithe ar Chronarthaí láithreacha an...

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Notes on the the formation of the Government of the 30th Dáil

June 15, 2007
By Stephen

An Taoiseach: Bertie Ahern, Fianna Fail, Dublin Central. There was no surprises when he was elected Taoiseach with a comfortable majority, 89 votes to 76. He stays on but more importantly as anointed his successor. An Tánaiste and Minister for Finance: Brain Cowen, Fianna Fail, Laois-Offaly. Cowen continues on in the important ministry and definitely is now seen as Bertie’s replacement. If the economy does suffer, the problems will fall at his door though. Stamp Duty reform will be...

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Morning Briefing, 7th March

March 7, 2007
By Stephen
Morning Briefing, 7th March

Dia Duit! Rinne mé dearmad ar Seachtain na Gaeilge atá ar suil an seachatin seo! Tá dhá bebo agus myspace amhain or an idirlion! SnaG – SeachtainNaGaeilge.bebo.com Ceol – SnaGCeol.bebo.com – www.myspace.com/snagceol An nuacht ar an maidin seo! Northern Ireland goes goes to the polls today in a very decisive election. (CNN, Breakingnews, RTÉ, BBC, France 24) The Polls are open until 10pm tonight with the counting begining tomorrow. 250 candidates are contesting 108 seats. The election is by...

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Irish used for the first time in the EU

February 16, 2007
By Stephen

I though Sinn Fein would have used it in the Parliament by now, but it was in fact first used in the Committee of the Regions by Seamus Murray, leader of the Irish delegation and member of Meath County Council and a member of the Union for a Europe of the Nations-European Alliance group (UEN-EA) Full Story

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Morning Briefing, 22nd January

January 22, 2007
By Stephen

Dia Duit! Tá sé ag cur sneachta!!!! An nuacht ar an maidin seo! Well the north’s PSNI is ser to be racked by accusations today with a new repoprt due to be launched by the Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan (Breakingnews) This could undo alot of hard work that the PSNI has undertaken under the Patten report! Well Hilary is ‘in this to win’ (Breakingnews). I hope to put up a post shortly about presidential hopefuls! A radical nationalist party...

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Morning Briefing, 16th January

January 16, 2007
By Stephen

Earliest Morning Briefing yet, Thinking of shortening it down to MB but i might be infringing on trademarks An nuacht ar an maidin seo! Feic ar mo dheireadh post le nuacht agus na bhuaiteora ag an Golden Globes areir! (Wow look at my Irish!! Tell me if im wrong please Looks like we’ll be a having a referendum in March (BreakingNews) I could have sworn someone had said no referendum before the election! eh typical government! Castro could be...

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Happy New Year! – EU facts

January 1, 2007
By Stephen
Happy New Year! – EU facts

Well its official, 2007 has arrived and I am suffering from the worst hangover of the year so far! God what an excellent night. So the EU now has 27 members states, and as many people cant name all the member states I’m going to list them all for you!AustriaBelgiumBulgariaCyprusCzech RepublicDenmarkEstoniaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryIrelandItalyLatviaLithuaniaLuxembourgMaltaNetherlandsPolandPortugalRomaniaSlovakiaSloveniaSpainSwedenUnited Kingdom The European Union’s 27 member states cover an area of 4,336,790 square kilometres (1,674,444 sq mi) and have approximately 490 million inhabitants as of January 2007. The...

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1st of January what a busy day!

December 30, 2006
By Stephen

I recently posted about what will happen to Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania on the 1st of January 2007, but that’s not all that will happen. The EU institutions will be able to work in Irish from now on, that includes Irish MEP’s addressing the EU Parliament as Gaeilge and the EU publishing more documents in Irish. Also on the 1st of January ASBO’s will be introduced in Ireland, these arent been welcomed by all though. Youth groups are opposed...

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Use of the Irish Language

December 21, 2006
By Stephen

Dia Dhuit! I had my first full conversation as gaeilge in ages today with a fellow member of a resource centre in Cork, and I love it!! Its a pity that people dont use the language. I would say Polish is spoken more then Irish in Ireland! To encourage the reading and writing of Irish I’m goin to post up a list of Irish Language Blogs in hopes of encouraging the language online and a few websites I use....

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Can you bank in Irish in Ireland?

December 20, 2006
By Stephen

With An Gaeilge set to become an offical working language on the 1st of January 2007, I cam across two posts on Ach go háirithe the orginal post on BANKING as gaeilge is very informative and gives information I never knew existed! Such as BOI and TSB are currently reviewing their language policies, set for completion sometime in 2007. BOI offer cheque books in Irish and some of their ATM have an Irish language facility. TSB offer both their...

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