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Des Bishop is doing more to promote the Irish language than Mary Hanafin according to the President of the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation.

Bishop’s television programme, ‘In the Name of the Fada’, charting his efforts to become fluent in Irish is presenting a very positive view of the language.

In contrast, Hanafin is banning Irish-speaking schools (Gaelscoileanna) from teaching entirely through Irish.

Talk about taking a giant step backwards.

The only effective way to teach a language is to use it as a language. Gaelscoileanna have proved this. And here we have a Minister for Education and Science destroying something that works!

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I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud

by William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

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Richard Widmark, the actor who portrayed killers, cowboys and cops has died at the age of 93.

His first film was called ‘Kiss of Death (1947) and in it he portrays psychopathic killer Tommy Udo who giggles as he pushes an old woman in a wheelchair down a flight of stairs.

Another star of the black and white era silently slips away.

Rest In Peace Richard.

Moses, Jesus and a very old man were out golfing one fine day.

Moses drives his ball. It bounces off a tree into a water hazard. So he parts the water and knocks the ball onto the green.

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