What occupations have a mandatory requirement for the Irish language?

In the wind

I know or at least I think I know that historically the Irish Language was a requirement to work as a civil servant in Ireland. I also think I know that it is still a requirement to become a primary school teacher but what other occupations have a mandatory requirement for the Irish language?

I'm thinking next to none but want to be certain. Thanks folks for your advice.

CrabRevolution

I'd say there's none realistically. Every public service/HSE job application form I've ever filled out has a tickbox saying something like "Tick here if you'd like to be assessed for Irish competency. It is not necessary in this role however it may be in the event of a vacancy in a role where Irish is a job requirement".

But I've never seen or heard any jobs within the public service requiring Irish, where the main purpose for the job isn't to communicate through Irish, e.g. education is one area where there'd be a lot of roles from Naíonraí up to secondary school. Also the EU are constantly looking out for translators.

I've seen a few jobs which might not actually say "Irish required" but pretty obviously require fluent Irish like language planner for the Gaeltacht, TG4/Gaeilge RTÉ roles etc.

List here of Irish required (or preferable) jobs, including voluntary roles:
https://peig.ie/foluntais/

In the wind

Interesting, I had been led to believe that is a requirement at least for both teaching & civil service jobs.

Thanks for the link I'll take a look.

spurious

It used to be a requirement for teaching. A higher standard exam (Ceard Teastas) was needed for a permanent job in a VEC (now ETB) than a secondary school. The Ceard Teastas was roughly HL LC standard (in those days....standards are a bit different now).

Nigel Fairservice

It's not a requirement for the civil service these days. There are certain posts in the civil service that require Irish but these jobs will be advertised as such and you'd have to prove your proficiency in the language as part of the recruitment process.

The only job I can think of that you definitely need Irish would be for primary teaching. I think solicitors had to do a little Irish proficiency exam as well but it was scrapped a few years ago.

Samuel T. Cogley

Barristers have to do Irish classes but it's not examined.

GalwayGrrrrrl

Some jobs in the NUI universities require an Irish exam as part of application process. For example a job in the university library in Galway.

In the wind

GalwayGrrrrrl wrote: »

Some jobs in the NUI universities require an Irish exam as part of application process. For example a job in the university library in Galway.

Garda?
Primary school teacher, yes.
Lawyer?
Gaeltacht or Irish language sector jobs,yes.

So in essence there are almost zero with a hard requirement,correct?