Sir, Accepting without argument the value of the Irish language and the desirability of its development and promotion, let us look closely at the practical and economic aspect only of TNaG.
Television stations run for a pre-set number of hours each day. Space must be filled and during the day one may see on RTE 1 or Network 2 such programmes as the re-showing of a talk show, with an author flogging a book, that was not worth looking at first time round. Why is it not possible to fit in all the proposed programmes of TNaG on the two stations operating at present?
Jobs with no economic validity where salaries come directly from public funds are not real jobs. They are super social welfare benefits. Yours, etc., Island Lodge, Oulart, Co Wexford.