Demand for more articles as Gaeilge in Irish daily newspapers

[Fallen Angel]

I was walking down O'Connell street this morning and as per usual, trying to dodge the people who were handing out the free newspapers like the Metro and Herald AM.

I never take these newspapers because there is never any articles as Gaeilge in them.
If 1.6 million people in Ireland have some knowledge of Irish then why doesn't this translate into more articles in Irish in our daily newspapers?

Why is their just the once-off token article in any of the daily newspapers?

What I would propose is that at least 2 pages in every daily newspaper be devoted to Irish, with articles aimed at people with varying standards of Irish, so you would have easy to read articles, articles for teenagers(10% of whom attend Gaeilscoils) and articles for the more advanced learners. Who knows maybe even someone like Des Bishop could even write some of these articles.

Why is is that the Evening Herald do a Polish language supplement, but there is never a supplement in Irish for the 350,000 fluent/native Irish speakers and 1.6m people who have a knowledge of the language?

Why is it that we are more accepting of having Chinese and Polish language supplements in our newspapers than we are with having an Irish supplement?

[Rebel CNC]

If you think the demand is there, go and set one up.

[constitutionus]

because despite what the gaelgoirs would like to think no one that matters in any numbers WANTS one.

theres about as much demand for an irish paper as there is for chocolate teapots.

[Fallen Angel]

because despite what the gaelgoirs would like to think no one that matters in any numbers WANTS one.

theres about as much demand for an irish paper as there is for chocolate teapots.

I didn't say separate Irish language newspapers, I was talking about having at least a couple of pages in Irish in every daily newspaper.

[Munion]

Honestly I doubt most people would be able to read an article in Irish on say the economy.

If I saw an article in Irish in a newspaper i'd probably skip over it.

[PhoenixIreland]

If we had a population genuinely interested in being bi-lingual thats the kind of thing that would really help people learn, but we dont'.
Despite how faux nationalistic people get over the language we don't speak it and have never tried to.
For every one person who could read those articles there would be 100 who could not.

[Rebel CNC]

I didn't say separate Irish language newspapers, I was talking about having at least a couple of pages in Irish in every daily newspaper.

Believe it or not - newspaper publishers actually do a lot of research into what people would like to see or not see in a newspaper. Even a decision to have one more half page of world news and one less of home news is tested and discussed endlessly.

If there was a huge demand for two pages, it would be catered for.

[Fallen Angel]

If we had a population genuinely interested in being bi-lingual thats the kind of thing that would really help people learn, but we dont'.
Despite how faux nationalistic people get over the language we don't speak it and have never tried to.
For every one person who could read those articles there would be 100 who could not.

Yes, but what about all the 500,000 kids who study Irish every day in school, shouldn't there be a section in Irish for them in our daily newspapers?

[Centurian]

Demand what ye like - And we the majority will continue to ignore ye !

Bleedin' Culture vultures.....! .

[constitutionus]

Yes, but what about all the 500,000 kids who study Irish every day in school, shouldn't there be a section in Irish for them in our daily newspapers?

mother of god how many kids to you know that read newspapers?

half the countrys adults dont