Irish National Parliament Promotes Development of Irish Language in Northern Ireland - Cites Failure to Honour Good Friday Agreement

The following was posted to the Offical Web Page of the Oireachtas (Irish National Parliament) on June 13, 2013: "The Joint Committe on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement this morning engaged with a wide range of advocates on the work in developing the Irish Langauge in Northern Ireland."

The article continued: "Committee Members, and indeed each of the witnesses, are at one on the necessity for an Irish Language Act (by the Northern Ireland Assembly) which was promised in the (2006) Saint Andrews Agreement."

This initiative by the Oireachtas has come in the context of increasing criticism by Irish Language Advocates of the UK Government's failure to  honour the conditions set forth by the Good Friday Agreement, a full 14 years after its ratification in 1999, for the protection, preservation and promotion of the Irish tongue in Northern Ireland.

www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/mediazone/pressreleases/name-17054-en.html