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Ceist an Lae ● Demando de la Tago

Maidir leis an gcás Chaoimhín Mhic Ghiolla Catháin, an feidir aisghairm an drochdhlí a iarraidh ar mbaill SDLP, Plaid Cymru (PC), SNP agus Respect den Pharlaimint?

Koncerne la kazon de Caoimhín Mac Giolla Catháin, ĉu estas ebla demandi abrogacion de la malbonega leĝo al SDLP, Plaid Cymru (PC), SNP agus Respect parlamentanoj?

● Mark Durkan (SDLP)

● George Galloway (Respect)

● Stewart Hosie (SNP)

● Elfyn Llwyd (PC)

● John Mason (SNP)

● Dr Alasdair McDonnell (SDLP)

● Eddie McGrady (SDLP)

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● Angus MacNeil (SNP)

● Adam Price (PC)

● Angus Robertson (SNP)

● An Ró-Onórach Ailig Salmond (SNP)

● Mike Weir (SNP)

● Hywel Williams (PC)

● Pete Wishart (SNP)

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.......House Of Commons, London SW1A 0AA (UK)

Puna Leĝo Vivas en Nord-Irlando

…de la Belfast Telegraph:

A legal challenge against a 270-year-old ban on the use of the Irish language in court proceedings in Northern Ireland has been dismissed in the High Court in Belfast.

An Irish language speaker, Caoimhin Mac Giolla Cathain, a member of the Shaws Road Gaeltacht in west Belfast, took the case after he was informed that his application in Irish for an occasional drinks licence could not be considered.

Court staff said the reason was that the Administration of Justice (Language) Act of 1737 stipulated that “all proceedings in courts of justice within this kingdom shall be in the English language”….

….Janet Muller, CEO of Pobal, which supported Mr Cathain's application, said: “We are disappointed but not surprised. Today's decision proves the urgent need for an Irish Language Act to properly protect the rights of Irish speakers...

...“In Wales, Welsh speakers have had the right to use Welsh in courts since 1942. In Scotland, there are courts where Gaidhlig can be heard every day.

“This case shows that the British Government is once more guilty of operating a double standard in its treatment of the users of different languages on these islands.”

Postenoj por Kimraparolantoj

...de la Evening Leader:

Wrexham council are seeking to recruit more Welsh speaking staff.

Next week the council are set to evaluate the provision of Welsh language in the borough at an executive meeting.Council communications manager Sue Wyn Jones said: "Across the staff we think there are more Welsh speakers than we know about.

As part of the language skills strategy we are looking at recruitment and staffing."

But she said that a people's voice survey revealed that 61 per cent of people were happy with the Welsh service of the council...

Nova Kino por Galway

…de la Irish Film & Television Network:

A new cinema for the people of Galway took a step closer to becoming a reality when, the first sod was turned on the site, at 15 Lower Merchants Road, by Labour Party President and former Minister for Arts Michael D Higgins.

The move, which marks the start of the construction of Galway’s new ‘art-house’ cinema, which will show the best in international films, experimental films and Irish made features upon completion, and will also cater for students, schools, young people and senior audiences.

The cinema which will hold three screens, a ground floor café, a first floor bar and a video/bookshop is expected to open in 2010. There will be one below-ground cinema, a communal meeting area and a ticket booth situated between the old and new buildings.

It is intended that the cinema will screen films in the Irish language, documentary films, Irish-made films, independent worldwide features, classic cinema, archival cinema and retrospective cinema.

Konsterno pri la Kazo de Mac Giolla Catháin - Mac Ádhaimh

…de Sinn Féin:

Dúirt uachtarán Shinn Féin Gearóid Mac Ádhaimh inniu go raibh díomá air cluinstin nár glacadh leis na hargóintí ó foireann dleathach Caoimhín Mac Giolla Chatháin faoi phéindlí Acht 1737.

Ag labhairt dó inniu dúirt an tUasal Mac Ádhaimh;

“Tá an cás seo ag dul ar aghaidh ar feadh tamaillín anois agus tá ard mheas tuilte ag Caoimhín as seasamh an fhód ar son cearta an phobail gaelach sna Sé Chontae.

Níl na sonraí uilig ar fáil faoi láthair ach is cinnte go mbeidh Gaeilgeoirí fud fad na tíre ag leanúint san fheachtais chun deireadh a chuir leis an sean dlí inghlactha seo.

Ba chóir go raibh cead ag Gaeilgeoirí a cuid gnó sa chúirt a dhéanamh trí mheán na Gaeilge, níl áit ar bith ann sa lá ata inniu ann, don chineál sean dlí coilíneach seo.”

La Kimralingvo en Eŭropo

….de TeleText:

The use of the Welsh language in EU institutions has taken a step forward, but there are no plans for it to be Europe's 24th "official" language.

A deal to be signed by Sir Kim Darroch, the UK's EU ambassador, means Welsh speakers can write to and receive a response from the commission in Welsh. The accord follows similar agreements last year, it was said at the Assembly…

Coláiste Speirín

…de la Irish Echo:

A County Tyrone Irish language secondary school is calling on big-hearted Irish Americans, or a kindly benefactor, to help the school survive beyond the summer.

Coláiste Speirín is a small Irish language college in Cookstown which was set up in September 2007 with a mere six pupils. The school was founded by a group of parents who want their children to be educated through the medium of Irish.

The school has yet to receive funding from the Department of Education in Northern Ireland, and the school's Board of Governors is now fearful that if the school does not receive a much-needed cash injection soon, it could go to the wall.

"I understood from the outset that this project, although very challenging, would bring great hope and fulfillment and so considered it a privilege for me also to become personally involved with this school," explained school principal Cathal Ó Donnghaile...

Nun, al la Eŭropa Kortumo pri Homaj Rajtoj

...de la blogo, From the Balcony, de Máirtín Ó Muilleoir:

The decision by the High Court in Belfast today to stand over the atrocious 1737 Act banning Irish in the courts clears the way for this landmark legal challenge to go all the way to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

Plaudits go to Pobal, Caoimhín Mac Giolla Chathain and solicitor Michael Flanigan for taking this case to the highest court 'in the land' and simultaneously taking it into the public domain.

And while the commitments in the Good Friday Agreement, the St Andrew's Agreement and the European Charter on Lesser-Used Languages have all proved to be meaningless in the face of this discriminatory legislation, notice has been served that Irish speakers aren't willing to accept second-class citizenship…

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* Irlandalingvaj raportoj skribiĝis de Eoghan Ó Néill kaj Concubhar Ó Liatháin.

Irlandalingva Tomboŝtono

…de Cumann Oidhreachta Gaelach Seattle:

In 1853, two Irish-born brothers, Thomas & Samuel Maylor, staked their claims in present-day Oak Harbor on the peninsula which is still called Maylor’s Point on Whidbey Island in Washington State near Seattle. When Sam’s wife Mary died in 1861, Sam returned to Ireland with their three children where he had a headstone sculpted and inscribed in old-style Irish Gaelic for Mary’s grave. He also married again in Ireland and then the family traveled back to Whidbey Island via ship around Cape Horn, a 5-6 month journey back then. He brought Mary’s headstone back to Whidbey Island with him and had it erected on her grave on Maylor’s Point.

In early 1941, the Maylor family sold Maylor’s Point to the Navy to build what became the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, but the family brought the headstone from their grandmother’s grave with them. In 1973, the headstone was given to the local historical society which erected it in the Pioneer section of Sunnyside Cemetery beside a wooden blockhouse that dates from the 1800s.

The Lace Makers of Glenmara

…de Seattlest:

The Lace Makers of Glenmara is one of those novels that you can bet on becoming a big film in the future. We can see it already, and are practically putting money on who would star. Let's see, we need a starring actress who is pretty but not beautiful; petite, not tall; with a lively wit to make up for anything lacking...and a leading man who is tall dark and handsome with an Irish accent. The movie just seems like a no-brainer.

And why is it a no-brainer? Well, you've got (as described above) a 26-year-old Seattle fashion designer devastated by the twin heartbreaks of her mother dying and her long-time boyfriend leaving her for a gorgeous rail-thin fashion model. She escapes to the rural countryside town of Glenmara, Ireland, in hopes of finding herself….

….The Lace Makers of Glenmara also illustrates that Barbieri did her homework--not only in the language and Gaelic, but in the setting as well. It's a quick read, is truly heartfelt, and in all, is a charming story of one woman setting out to make something better for herself with no expectations of aid besides her own capabilities.

Kimra kaj Klingona Lingvoj

…de la Daily Post:

Welsh speakers are more likely to be able to master the difficult Klingon language beloved of all Star Trek fans.

Computer expert Alex Greene of Wrexham, one of a select group of people who can speak Klingon fluently, believes that’s because the creators drew on several languages, including Welsh, for the intergalactic dialect.

The 46-year-old Star Trek fan said: “I do believe that if you can speak Welsh, you have an advantage where Klingon is concerned as some sounds are similar such as ‘ll’ and ‘ch’.”

Alex began learning the language in 1986 and took a year to master its intricacies.

He added: “Star Trek is one of my hobbies. My other hobby is languages.

“I have always enjoyed foreign languages, listening to them and communicating with them. Up to 1986 it had been French, Japanese and Esperanto...

Letero de Dafydd Iwan

…de la Caernarfon Denbigh Herald:

Three things have happened recently which have distressed many people in Wales, not to mention the distress caused to the individuals involved.

The first was the refusal of the immigration authorities to allow Evelyn Calcabrini and Shirley Edwards, both from Patagonia, to come to Wales to study Welsh and English, and Shirley also to visit her sister at Tremadog.…

The case of Arfon Gwilym, refused a visa to the United States because of his part in the non-violent campaign for a Welsh TV channel almost 40 years ago, is another example of bureaucracy gone mad. …

The third was the inexcusable bad manners shown towards Cefin Roberts and the singers of Ysgol Glanaethwy by a small part of the audience at Llandudno’s Venue Cymru.…

Surely, these three examples prove that we have some way to go still until Wales and the Welsh language are given the respect and status they deserve.

If anyone would like to show their support for Shirley and Evelyn, there will be a concert at Rehoboth chapel, Nant Peris on Saturday, July 11, the proceeds of which will be used to secure their return to Wales to finish their studies.

Tago Antaŭ la Tribunalo por la Irlandolingvo

…de la blogo, From the Balcony, de Máirtín Ó Muilleoir:

8 July will be an important date for the Irish language and for those who believe in using the courts to drive change in the light Orange statelet.For on that day, judgement will be delivered in the Caoimhín Mac Giolla Chathain case which challenges the centuries' old ban on Irish in the court system in the North.

Interestingly, the powers-that-be in the North went in to bat vigorously for this discriminatory piece of legislation, insisting that proper governance of our courts wouldn't be possible unless Irish was banned.The decision will tell us how far we have travelled since the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 and its promise of a society free of anti-Irish language bias.