No rules of the Roads in Irish - why not?

Tipsy Mac

A relative who is a native speaker recently tried to get the Rules of The Road in Irish (you know the official language of the country) and was dumbfounded to discover it's not actually curently in print anywhere. This is at a time when O Cuiv changed the name of a town to Irish against the wishes of most living there yet basic rules of the road are unavaible. Looks like Mr Native Irish speaker will have to hitch a lift to An Daingean for the moment. Wonder if a native speaker was caught breaking the speed limit would they be exempt from prosecution seeing as the basic rules are unavailable to study?

seamus

Ignorance of the rules is no excuse. A foreigner wouldn't get off because he couldn't understand the English version, so why would a native?

That said, I've no idea why it's not in print in Irish. Sounds strange to me.

AnnaStezia

Does your relative drive in Irish ?

mike65

methinks this is a languages issue rather than a motoring one.

Mike.

Tipsy Mac

AnnaStezia wrote:

Does your relative drive in Irish ?

Yes there does be the odd cupla fucail out of him when he's behind the wheel

Seth Brundle

What does it matter anyway?
Most drivers are oblivious to driving ettiquette and rules and sure the book is long out of date!

69 mustang

Well if you were in charge of writing the rules book in English and drove to work each day you'd probably think "They don't read the English one in the english speaking parts so why bother ":D

AMurphy

Maybe the guys on the Irish ROTR project decided, rather than just simply take the English set, and translate them, would go out, observe and the write the rules to reflect what whatever rules were being practiced on the road.
Hence they came to the correct observation;
"There ain't no rules of the road" or whatever the Gaelic equivalent may be.
"Deabhal ar bith de rialacha an bhóthair atá ann." or words to that effect and retired to the nearest pub to watch re-runs of Ros na Run.