Sir, - It is in or around 40 or so years ago since, as a member of the late worthy P. A. O'Siochain's CARA organisation, I proposed a CARA TV station to promote exclusively the revival of the Irish language. The Press, Herald and Mail gave our letters campaign a puff. That was it: sic transit: lead balloon.
Now the moment is momentous, the challenge tremendous. A mafia type elitist net would strangulate at birth with its incestuous incomprehensible sibilance: on the other hand bualadh bas bowdlerisation would banjax the station from the beginning. There has to be a middle way, for the sake of a living language for today's majority Jacks and Jills.
There is a pool of hammer and chisel afficionados out there with a reservoir of Irish up to Leaving Cert standard, above and beyond the cupla focal. Interest them, coax Them, rope them in. Give them their head. The battle is the pay off. Just as war is too serious a business to be left in the hands of the generals, so too the new Irish language television station is too serious a business to be left in the hands of failed minority unspeakable shan nos tribalists. Carpe diem. Ga gaisce. Ga neiri an bothar. Beir Bua. Mise le meas,
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Mount Merrion,
Co Dublin.