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Podcast: In The News
Episode: Could Ireland's housing crisis kill the Irish language?
Description: Members of Gaeltacht community groups and Irish language campaigners have issued a stark warning. They say the lack of housing, and oversupply of short-term holiday lets in Gaeltacht areas, is displacing native Irish speakers from their home counties.As a result, many fluent Irish speakers, who seek to bring up their families fully immersed in the Irish language and return home to their native town lands or villages, are unable to find a place to live.Census data in recent years continues to how the language is in decline – the number of daily Ir...