Thread: Making Ireland British: is the project nearing completion?
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Old 29th January 2009
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Ireland has a higher number of Irish Speakers than the Native % stated
Not according to any data I've seen. What are you basing that upon?

2% is accurate for daily speakers outside the education system. In the last census, it was around 75,000. Not all of these are native speakers. Many are secondary bilinguals.

1% seems about accurate for native speakers.
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