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Agus níl muid ag caint ar fad ach ar chúpla céad duine agus tá géarchéim ann. Níl na daoine óga fiú amháin sna Gaeltachtaí is láidre. Bhí muid ag éisteacht le muintir na iad ag caint ar mhuintir na Ceathrún Rua ansin ar maidin fiú amháin sna Gaeltachtaí is láidre. Níl na daoine óga ag labhairt na Gaeilge agus leis sin níl siad ag sealbhú na Gaeilge.

And we are not talking at all about more than a few hundred people and there is a crisis. Not even the young people are in the strongest Gaeltacht areas. We were listening to the people there talking about the people of Carraroe this morning, even in the strongest Gaeltacht areas. The young people are not speaking Irish and because of that they are not acquiring Irish.