The creeping prominence of the Irish language

OP's username certainly checks out.

Tír gan teanga etc.

Do you know the percentage of the population that are monolingual Irish speakers?

its 0.2% and they rarely leave the Gaeltacht.

This type of 'revival' will just get people's backs up and have the opposite effect to that intended. They've learnt nothing in almost 100 years.

In the examples given by the OP I'm failing to see where there is any element of compulsion involved in having to read or communicate through Irish. At no stage are you being forced to use Irish to understand your surroundings. All I can see is Irish being given equal prominence to English and Irish cultural outlets being available to those who are interested, which apparently seems to cause you a lot of bother.

It's a classic example of people in a dominant prestige language community turning up their noses at the cheek of giving recognition to another language. The mere fact that they are equal is outrageous or objectionable.

I live in Belgium and you sometimes see the exact same attitude. A legacy of French being the dominant language, and Francophones frothing at the mouth at the mere notion of Dutch appearing on signs/being considered their equal. They're never actually forced to learn it or use it, they just feel disgusted at the thought of having to encounter it in their daily lives, or god forbid listen to it in any context.

It's a cliché to bring up postcolonialism here but I can't think a single other society in Europe where the demonisation and estrangement of a community from their own historic language was more thorough than in Ireland. Many Welsh mightn't speak Welsh but I doubt you'd hear actual Welsh people claiming that Welsh appearing on a few signs is outrageous. Ditto for Basques or Frisians or any other language community. If you talk to most people outside of Ireland when the subject of Irish comes up many people have great sympathy for it and it's continued survival. Most of the hatred and glee at it's decline nowadays only seems to exist in Ireland, oddly enough.

It's like they'll do anything to revive the language, except actually teach it in a manner that actually interests people.

Which costs? Can you detail them out?

I did learn it. At school.

I was taught it, in a manner that interested me. In a state school in a working class area in Dublin.

That aboriginal language belongs in the past anyway, these sorts of schemes are a waste of everyone’s time and a massive waste of money.