Action Urged by Donegal Councillor - Destroy English Road Signs in the Donegal Gaeltacht

The website "Journal.ie" reports on a radical call to action.  "A Donegal Councillor has said he encourages people to spray paint over English translations on signs in the Gaeltacht region he represents. Speaking to TheJournal.ie,councillor Micheal Cholm Mac Giolla Easbuig said that he refused to “condemn anyone who takes action to draw attention to the dying breaths of the Gaeltacht” and said he saw the actions as criticism of the government’s failure."

Councillor Micheal Cholm Mac Giolla Easbuig is quoted in the article: "A report from 2007 found that there was around 16 years to revive the use of the Irish language within Gaeltacht areas, but three years out from that deadline and he says nothing much has changed about the government’s approach...To save the Gaeltacht, the state has to be willing to save the Gaeltacht, and they need to invest in it. We have forced emigration: it’s accepted that young people from 18 years onwards will emigrate, but people in their 50s and 60s are emigrating – that’s a very bad sign.”

Speaking to TheJournal.ie, Councillor Micheal Cholm Mac Giolla Easbuig said that he refused to “condemn anyone who takes action to draw attention to the dying breaths of the Gaeltacht” and said he saw the actions as criticism of the government’s failure.

Read the full article here: https://www.thejournal.ie/donegal-gaeltacht-signs-defaced-4770446-Aug2019/