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    TG4 inspection – Níli Aon Tinteán – no homes in the Gaeltacht as the housing crisis bites


    TG4 inspection – Níli Aon Tinteán – no homes in the Gaeltacht as the housing crisis bites

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    Posted by MaelduinTamhlacht

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    1. MaelduinTamhlacht on

      Happy well-off Dubliners have their home in Foxrock, and a cottage in Casla where they spend the summer – but meanwhile, the children of the Gaeltacht are growing up with no hope of buying a home where they grew up and where their families are.

      Quite apart from the harm to families, what better way to kill the language?

      Programme in Irish with subtitles in English available (bottom right of the screen.)

    3. funpubquiz on

      reprehensible. but FG never cared for the Irish language and the current generation of FG actively despise it.

    6. Fearusice on

      Connemara and similar Gaeltacht areas should be protected under a classification of ‘culturally sensitive’. What this would mean is only people born there or with grandparents from there can build or buy private property. Exception being they are fluent in Irish. This would encourage less dilution of the language. Would people still move back due to grandparents link but not speak the language, yes. In my opinion not allowing people with a link to move back is overly harsh if they don’t speak the language. Could fluent speakers move back and not speak it absolutely. It’s not perfect but it’s well worth trying. It would mean locals would have a better chance at buying and building houses while also encouraging the language. The language always shifts to English even if there is one English speaker, this would with time, hopefully change that.

      Commercial properties would be exempt for economic and employment reasons I’m only speaking about housing.

      It’s been a thought of mine for a while never really spoke about it so be nice

    7. Gowl247 on

      I went to college in carraroe the course has since moved on to main campus in the city so I’d imagine a lot of the houses formerly used for students would be used as short term letting like they used them for during the summer when we went home. I’d say the local economy took a hit when the course moved