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Pádraig Schäler with family and friends visited Cape Cod, where he was injured as a cyclist five years ago, to raise awareness of road safety. Photograph: Courtesy Reinhard Schäler.
Pádraig Schäler, Gaeilge, AI revolution, Clinton in Dublin and the ‘reel’ Dublin

A young Irish cyclist in the US on a J1 visa suffered a catastrophic brain injury when he was involved in a serious road accident in Cape Cod five yea(...)

Irish-language protesters in the Whiterock area of Belfast. Photograph: Colm Lenghan/Pacemaker
Dublin’s actions have inflamed North’s Irish-language crisis

It will come as a shock to many people that the issue of an Irish language Act has been a factor in the collapse of the talks to restore devolution in(...)

DUP leader Arlene Foster, signs a book of condolence for Martin McGuinness. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty
Hysterical reaction of British left to DUP is simplistic and naive

The surprising thing is that people are surprised when the Conservatives play the Orange card – that historic shorthand for British politicians using (...)

The Gaeltacht is as much a faith community as it is a linguistic one. In a very profound way, native speakers, and many other Irish speakers, have kept faith with the language
Irish is a living language that safeguards Ireland’s soul

Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam. Even if you are just one of the “cúpla focal” brigade, you will most probably recognise the phrase - “A country without (...)

DUP Leader Arlene Foster claims she won the election but she only brought her base out – more unionists voted for her unionists than voted for other unionist candidates. Photograph Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker Press
Pól Ó Muirí: Why Catholics just won’t vote unionist

‘I won the election,’ said DUP leader, Arlene Foster, after the recent Stormont election. It was a blunt statement, impertinent too. It might even b(...)