The Gaeltacht — DJP (2026)

 

New as Gaeilge hub for parents — The Dublin People Group (2026)

 

This article is online-only.

https://dublinpeople.com/news/dublin/articles/2026/10/20/new-as-gaeilge-hub-for-parents/

New as Gaeilge hub for parents

A new “Irish for Parents” website was launched last month to serve parents across Ireland who would like to improve their ability as Gaeilge.

The website, IrishforParents.ie, was launched by Minister for Education Hildegarde Naughton in September and was created by Gaeloideachas with support from the Department of Education and Foras na Gaeilge.

Dublin woman Clodagh Ní Mhuirí, who may perhaps be better known in her other public capacity as a northside Fine Gael councillor, is the manager of the online hub.

Gaeloideachas was established as Gaelscoileanna Teo. in 1973 to support and help grow the then very small Gaelscoileanna movement in the Republic of Ireland outside the Gaeltacht.

Today, it is the national support and advocacy organisation for Irish-medium education in the Republic of Ireland, both inside and outside the Gaeltacht.

Its expanded remit, catering for Irish-medium education within the Gaeltacht as well as Gaelscoileanna outside it, led the organisation to change its name to Gaeloideachas in 2016.

Speaking to Dublin People, Clodagh said:

“When we did a bit of research on this, one of the things we found was that while there are a lot of resources out there, parents don’t always know about them or where to find them.

“They want to be able to support their children as they are learning Irish in school and they just don’t necessarily know where to go for that support or that help.

“Especially for parents who don’t have any Irish. A lot of parents have a certain level of Irish from school but they might not be confident in it.

“Other parents might not have gone to school in Ireland themselves, so they are really starting from scratch with the language.

“So what we wanted to do with this was create a central point, a central hub that people can go to and find the resources that they need, regardless of their own level of Irish, and be able to get started on that and get the information that they need.

“We have over 100 resources linked from ‘Irish for Parents’.

“So if you go onto the site, you can search; you can categorise them all by what age your child is; by what your own level of Irish is; what you are hoping to achieve with them; what type of resource it is.

“There are plenty of ways to filter them and find what you need and what suits you because that won’t be the same for every family.”

Tionscadal “Gaeilge do Thuismitheoirí” / New "Irish for Parents" website — Clodagh Ní Mhuirí, Gaeloideachas — Near FM (2026)

 

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Raidió Fáilte @ 20 — An Todhchaí / The Future — Cuairt Near FM Visit (GA/EN) (2026)

 

Cillian Breatnach, Bainisteoir Raidió Fáilte 

– Belfast's Irish-language radio station

DJP on the challenge of becoming fluent or competent Irish speakers (2026)

 

DJP (2026)

 

Pat Gilroy

 

Seirbhísí Stáit as Gaeilge — Páidí Ó Lionáird, Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga — Near FM (2026)

 

🔊 Nuacht maidir le comharthaí gan ag cloí le hAcht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla 

– Near FM (2026)

Caisleán Cnucha agus Castleknock Tidy Towns (2025/26)

I am nearly a year "slow" on this but I only noticed this yesterday driving in a friend's car on College Road! I love it!! 💖💖💖 I will take a couple of photos of the spot for WC / Wikimedia Commons at some point over the next few weeks.

Uasdátú/Update:


I took a photo of the sign for Wikimedia Commons

Bilingual EN/GA bookmarks (2026)

 

I bought these 4 bilingual aluminium EN/GA bookmarks from the shop Local Irish Gifts in Wexford 

Town recently – I love them, not that I really read 4 books at a time! 😊😍 The shops sells a pretty 

wide selection of as Gaeilge and bilingual as Gaeilge / as Béarla stuff which is great dar liom!

Immigration and the Irish language — DJP (2026)

 

I shouldn't have to spell this out – I have been aware of this for over 20 years – but generally immigration 

to Ireland is good for the Irish language.

Not only do most immigrants to Ireland speak at least two languages – many of them speak more than 

two and many of them have a much greater understanding of the position of minority languages and 

cultural diversity from their original countries so they can I believe understand the position of the Irish 

language in Ireland more and why some people believe strongly that we should preserve and try to grow 

Gaeilge.

I do think that the growth in immigration in Ireland over the last few years is unsustainable and we should

be permitting a lot less new people into the country over the next few years so we can cope but I don't 

make a false connection saying that immigration is not good for the Irish language and to the contrary I

think that most of the time it is the reverse.

If the Irish language in Ireland is not in a strong a place as ideal it is because the vast bulk of the native

Irish population have no strong committment to brush up on the language in a decent sense and speak it.

An Fál Carrach (Falcarragh) — An observation — DJP (2026)

 

From my Facebook tonight below. I visited the north-west Donegal Gaeltacht area on Saturday although 

forgot to take a photo of An tSean Bheairic. You can see the photos I took on my day trip on WC here, 

here and see the short video I took of Gleann Nimhe here.

Fadas (Irish-language accent marks) — Darren J. Prior (2026)

 

DJP (2026)

 

Macalla Teo agus an clár "Mo Shaol Do Shaol" ar Cúla4 — Cúán Mac Conghail — Near FM (2026)

 

The very small number of Irish speakers nationally overall — DJP (2026)

 

Debate about Official Languages (Amendment) Act 2021 — Leinster House — DJP (28th April 2026)

 

I saw on a Nuacht RTÉ/TG4 report tonight that the 20% Irish speakers by 2030 target in the public sector and civil service was discussed at Leinster House today with SIPTU expressing difficulties with the target in terms of immigrants working in the PS/CS in Ireland in particular in the health service.

Here is a quote from Éamon Ó Cuív from when I interviewed him last nearly 3 years ago. I for one would support the target if I thought it was in anyway realistic i.e was anywhere near reachable. I believe that not even 1% of the population of the State and island are daily or regular Irish speakers outside of the education system. Because of this belief that I have I think the Government and other parties and Irish-language organisations supporting them on this would be doing well to reach 2% by 2030. So the target is pretty nuts insane à mon avis. They should have kept the initial 6% target dar liom. What harm is the 20% target when it is acknowleged by those supporting it that it is not going to be reached by 2030? In my opinion, like the 'working language' status of the Irish language in the EU (EU institutions), it damages goodwill to the language and Irish speakers from a lot of the public.

Éamon Ó Cuív (2023)

Comhairle Contae Fhine Gall agus Seachtain na Gaeilge — Near FM (2026) #CCFG #FingalCoco #SnaG

 

Bernie Kelly, Comhairle Contae Fhine Gall

🔊 Formhór na ndaoine óga gan ag caint Gaeilge sa Ghaeltacht? — DJP — Near FM (2026)

 

🔊 Giotán cainte / Soundbite – Young people speaking Irish in the Gaeltacht?

Greamán ó / Sticker from Redbubble (2026)

I don't abide by the sentiment expressed on this sticker all of the time but anyway I ordered it from 

Redbubble and it came in the post recently and is pretty cool à mon avis. 💗💚💙