It appears Cork County Council will have to brush up on their cúpla focal after being called out for using Google Translate on its official website. An investigation by the State’s official languages commissioner has criticised the council for “insulting” Irish speakers by providing substandard translations. Coimisinéir Teanga Rónán Ó Domhnaill found the council guilty of using the machine translation system to produce the Irish- language version of static content on its website. Mr Ó Domhnaill said Google’s online tool can often produce Irish translations that are “ineffective and impossible to understand” and the meaning of the original text can be completely changed. Mr Ó Domhnaill said: The results of the investigation reveal that only 0.7% of programmes broadcast on RTÉ television are classified as Irish-language programmes.

Source: Irish Examiner April 04, 2019 06:00 UTC