Talking Irish Language Rights on Tonight with Vincent Browne

In a sometimes heated exchange Niall makes the case for the need for an Irish Language Act in the Six Counties and challenges the ridiculous assertions from the Fianna Fáil representative that rights & equality issues should be "parked" and that the monumental scandal of RHI is only a "smokescreen".

[@carlostma643]

"Niall Ó... eh... Donegal". Surely that says it all! Acht Gaeilge Anois!

[@christopheroshea9799]

Irish language is spoken better by those not forced to see it is a tool of pretence

[@dhss333]

Hard border-any border- should be made unworkable by boycott, refusing to stop vehicles & show i.d.

[@conorfields506]

Wealthy southeners dont want the boat rocked Theyd rather leave northern nationalists in limbo to preserve their position

[@OhEidirsceoil]

True

[@seanmagee5669]

N.irish Nationalist were consigned to "limbo"-land: with the signing of the "treaty" back in 1921, resulting in the establishmentof the 26 county Irish Free State and the 6 county Northern Ireland statelet.

[@annodomini975]

wtf is this devils advocate that vince is playing toward Irish is the culture of everyone on this island, i'm sick of this apathy towards it.

[@annodomini975]

vicent browne is a dinosaur himself, he hasn't a clue about current politics what so ever, maith thú Niall for putting up with this amádan.

[@annodomini975]

feelings don't even come into it. It's a Historical Fact. Irish is the culture and heritage of the isle of Éire or did you 'feel' it was Kazakhstan?

[@billhayes9919]

While canvassing for Sinn Fein some years ago we came upon Vincent Brown and a TV3 camera crew. I greeted Vincent in basic Irish, asked him how he was and was he coming along on the campaign trail with us. He was struck dumb (first time ever). He couldn't undersand a word I said. He just grinned at me so he's not as smart as thinks he is.

[@markc3258]

Sad the way SF has gone .. EU liberals now Care more about blm and pride than real Irish citizens 😢

[@glyndwr182]

There is a ready made plan in place in Wales. That should be a good starting point.

[@joprocter4573]

Minority Wales speak it. But those who learnt it, hated just like Irish in roi but binned when left.. Same ppl going through self selected aphreid call our country only one that upholds them statelet or bigot country.. On partation I thought ira sinn fein said wee northern Ireland was an orange statelet... Of ye go to Ireland 26 leave 6NI alone.. Very few Scots talk indegious language and no one stops them if they want to..

[@korgow5rd]

Vincent Browne you dont seem to think much of being IRISH SIR,

[@pappy9473]

The people of Ireland want to learn how to speak their national tongue. Offered free, Irish lessons would be swamped by enthusiasm. Irish people should have to pay to learn their language.

[@dhss333]

Ulster Scots = a dialect.

[@Sean-sn9ld]

That's the opposite of helping , it's a language

[@elvismawhinney2494]

That host is a pain in the hole, doesn't let them talk

[@joprocter4573]

Every one can speak any language.. Its a power weapon in NI because language depts are well funded In NI.. BUT ulster Scots has had no such funding.. Its not plastered on bin lorry..

[@brianogsmyth7161]

Ridiculous that Irish is the first language of Ireland!? Free state mindset at its finest. Remind you of the DUP is right.

[@jimjimmy680]

People don't love their culture enough to learn Gaeilge, they lament it's absence, but they don't bother to learn it.

[@pappy9473]

The people of Ireland want to learn how to speak their national tongue. Offered free, Irish lessons would be swamped by enthusiasm. Irish people should have to pay to learn their language​@@jimjimmy680

[@ruairimasun1073]

jean paul sartre on the right ha. talking to two people at the same time

[@cbobrien9383]

Cén fath abhair as gaeilge gach lá?

[@fantablum]

bring in gaelga then we can all talk like idiots.

[@Sean-sn9ld]

They have those language rights in Wales and Scotland.... This is the same shit with the civil rights marches , people asking for the same rights as the rest of the UK and being denied by the elite of Unionism :(

[@joprocter4573]

Why concern with same rights as UK yet say you belong to ireland

[@missmarplefan]

last time i needed to use irish was april 1977 for leaving cert oral ! i spent 13 years learning a language i never needed !what a complete waste of time ! government spend millions on translating documents into irish knowing full well the people reading them speak fluent english !

[@OhEidirsceoil]

Away to england with you if ya hate Irishness so much. Byeeee

[@DA-og4px]

@@OhEidirsceoil You have misspelled your own name. Why should anyone take you seriously?

[@OhEidirsceoil]

@@DA-og4px lol. Spelling has nothing got to do with validity. In any case how do you know if I ever mispelt or mispell my own name?

[@OhEidirsceoil]

@@DA-og4px I am willing bet that your name is not spelt D A, but you dont see me using that fact as a lame irrelavant and very weak reply.

[@DA-og4px]

​@@OhEidirsceoil Do you know anyone who is in the habit of misspelling their own first and last name? I do. It's usually certain Irish people born with anglicised names who later 'revert' to the native Irish/Gaelic language forms in an effort to bolster their sense of identity, although some Americans and British of Irish descent do it too, to show off just how fíor-ghael they are. Just as there is a major difference in meaning between the word Éire ['Ireland'] and eire ['burden'], there is a difference between Críostóir Ó hEidirsceóil and you, Mr. Criostoir O'hEidirsceoil [sic].

[@fantablum747]

Nail Dunghail is not right.