Ciara Kelly: There's something wrong with the teaching of Irish.
There’s 'something going wrong’ with the way we teach Irish in school, Ciara Kelly has warned.She was responding to comments by the head of one of the country's best-known Gaeltacht summer colleges.Mícheál Ó Foighil, manager of Coláiste Lurgan in Connemara, slammed the Government for"putting its head in the sand" in relation to the"broken education system".Ciara said there is a problem with our national language.
Dashes:"I was a kid who was good at school - as in I was academically good - I did well and I liked doing well."Yet I had this black hole that was Irish; I didn't have a rats what was going on in it most of the time.""When I went into medicine - straight-A students throughout the class - almost all of them had a hole in their education that was Irish," she explained.She said it is"shameful" that the national language is lagging behind.
"We were students who wanted to get As in everything, we were that weird cohort, the ones who were competitive academically."I think he's right; I think it is shameful and I wish I had better Irish.Share this article
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