A chara, – I am a big fan of Google products and rely daily on their Gmail, search, Google Drive and Android phone products. All of these enhance my ability to get work and personal business done. Having said that, I cannot write an e-mail As Gaeilge with Gmail. There is no Irish language version of this product. This seems strange since Google has its European headquarters in Ireland.
Any of us can get Gmail in Basque, Catalan, Galician, and about 60 other languages. I can already hear the nauseating drone of the zombie language police coming out of their graves telling us all that Irish is a “dead language” and why bother.
Regardless, Google has a great opportunity to do as Microsoft, Facebook and others have done and get behind the Irish language and help sell it to a younger generation. Please can we have Gmail in Irish? – Is mise,
PÓL Ó CORRAGÁIN,
Bloomfield Street,
Hoboken,
New Jersey, US.