GALWAY CITY GAELTACHT HAS LOWEST NUMBER OF IRISH SPEAKERS

Date Published: 04-Oct-2007

The Gaeltacht area in Galway City has the lowest proportion of Irish speakers, according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics OfficeWhile the proportion was highest in County Waterford at 79 point 5 percent, just over half of people in the Galway Gaeltacht located in the city speak our native languageOverall there has been a drop of almost 2 percent in the number of Irish Speakers across the country since 2002