> And it's taught atrociously badly. The vast majority of graduates, after about 13 years of mandatory Irish classes, cannot functionally speak it. I grew up i

> And it's taught atrociously badly. The vast majority of graduates, after about 13 years of mandatory Irish classes, cannot functionally speak it. I grew up in a country where we had mandatory lessons in a little-used local language imposed on us by politicians. That I learned nothing isn’t the teachers’ fault - they were simply set an impossible task.