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Frank Schnittger:
Even today there are very few protestants in the Irish Civil service with the requirement to be able to speak Irish being a natural barrier to entry for most.

Natural barrier? That's an odd way of putting it. Do they go to different schools where Gaelic is not an option?

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by eurogreen on Mon Feb 27th, 2012 at 11:46:49 AM EST
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Officially Irish is compulsory in all schools, but because the language has been more or less hijacked by Catholic Nationalists v. few prods take it seriously enough to gain sufficient proficiency for Civil Service access.

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Mon Feb 27th, 2012 at 12:36:01 PM EST
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