Paul Givan vowed to advocate on behalf of the sector as he visited an Irish language primary school in Dungannon, Co Tyrone. “As Education Minister, I said from day one that I would be a Minister of Education for everybody in Northern Ireland, across all of our sectors,” he said. “When you look at the history of the Irish language, it was Presbyterians that came from Scotland that kept the language alive,” he said. And we think of even the townlands and the names of our places have a steep history in the Irish language. However, he also created controversy in that role in the same year when he axed a bursary scheme for children to attend Irish language classes in Co Donegal.

Source: The Herald March 07, 2024 05:31 UTC