Two sign language interpreters have been seen at daily Covid-19 briefings in Northern Ireland. A senior NI public servant believes Irish Sign Language is more commonly used in rural communities while British Sign Language is popular in towns and cities.
The politicians who have featured most often in the news briefings about the pandemic emergency are First Minister and DUP leader, Arlene Foster, and the Deputy First Minister, Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill.
But the sign language arrangements in place at the Covid-19 news conferences are not to cater for the English-speaking and Irish-speaking communities.They are Irish Sign Language , the system used south of the border and seen at news conferences hosted by the likes of the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, the Minister for Health, Simon Harris and the Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tony Holohan and British Sign Language , the system commonly used throughout the United Kingdom.
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