“It’s emphasised to encourage children who have home languages other than Irish and English, to use their language at school. But we looked at practically, how to do that.

We need to look more broadly at how we teach the language given that so many students leave school with relatively poor ...

Students and parents respond to Department of Education plan to limit issuing of exemptions in study of Irish language in ...

The Education Authority (EA) has said that Northern Ireland still needs two new Irish language post-primary schools to meet the demand for Irish-medium education. That is accordin ...

Currently, the Constitution recognises Irish as the State’s first official language and English as its second.

Researchers in Dublin have produced a report showing the benefits of a plurilingual approach in teaching Irish in primary schools, particularly children whose first language is not Irish or English.

"The majority of the parents send their children up to Coláiste Feirste ... The EA said that a new integrated Irish language primary school in east Belfast would "meet the needs of pupils ...