Northern Ireland 2125?

McDonalds does not have a single word of Irish on its website : it trialled allowing people to order in Irish but surprise surprise nobody does. If there was demand Supermacs would use a cupla focail, as it is was started and is still ran by an ex teacher from Galway, who knows nobody uses Irish.

Tesco may have the word "failte" at its entrance, but my local garage has "Vorsprung durch Technik" at its entrance. Does not mean the people in the garage speak German.

The ongoing belief in the fantasy that 'nobody uses the language' or that the 'language was or is dead' is bizarre and indicative of the head in the sand mentality that, is losing, and will lose this culture war they started.

When you go to McDonald's you can order in irish at the machines. That is fact. The Worlds biggest restaurant lets you order in irish here.

Tesco which has the most amount of supermarkets in Ireland spends money on irish signs and irish is the infact the first sign you see when entering.

The above blows to smithereens the claim that private companies dont spend money on irish. Biggest restaurant and supermarket here does. And thats just what i notice from day to day life and not google searches.

I agree.

Shock horror - Irish republicans are interested and keen to see the Irish language promoted, what is the world coming to??? 😁

What has that to do with your talk of "culture wars" and "every word of Irish is a bullet for Irish Freedom", and taunting the unionists by putting large Irish language signs - the signs associated with SF/IRA and Republicans who say "every word of Irish is a bullet for Irish Freedom" in their areas?

You cannot have it both ways.

You cannot gloat in the party you support, SF, and how they can taunt the unionists by putting signs containing Irish in to their areas where a majority it opposed to Irish language on signage / getting their traditional signs changed at expense to the council , and gloat about each word of Irish being a bullet for Irish Freedom, on one hand, and on the other hand say you are respecting the wishes of the PUL community and Irish language has nothing to do with the bullying of Republicans.

1. Can you back that claim up that nobody uses irish to order in McDonalds? Are you watching everyone?

2. It was your claim that no non state companies spend money on irish. It is completely untrue. And if tesco think that irish signs are worth it despite you claiming it being a millionth of thier budget. Why cant the same be said for the belfast train station. The extra bit of text in irish would cost an additional gazilionth of the capital expenditure budget.

But its not really about money is it. Public irish signs in NI is a threat to those sad bastards who have colonial mindset and irish public signage shows to those sad bastards that they no longer dominate. Nothing to do with money.

Tesco bought a few signs that say Failte, and in McDonalds a big mac's a big mac, but on the self service menu people have the option of calling it "An big mac". Neither have a word of Irish on their websites or anywhere else. How sad.

Maybe you could get other private sector businesses to invest in the Irish language?

Given the the Irish prefix for "super-" is sár, maybe you should convince Pat McDonagh owner of Supermacs to introduce a few words of Irish to his business? Maybe even call it Mac sár instead of Supermacs? If Belfast train station has to be lumbered with a dual language sign, should'nt Supermacs?

Or maybe you think the Supermacs founder and owner is one of those "sad bastards who have colonial mindset", as you call them?

Then why did you and some other republicans have a hissy fit over the democratic majority approved agreement of the border referendum in 1973? And not only refused to accept it, but the pIRA kept up their failed bombing and armed struggle campaign.

For those who may not know, the 1973 Northern Ireland border poll was a referendum held in Northern Ireland on 8 March 1973 on whether Northern Ireland should remain part of the United Kingdom or join with the Republic of Ireland to form a united Ireland. The referendum was boycotted by some nationalists and resulted in a conclusive victory for remaining in the UK. On a voter turnout of 58.7%, 98.9%, comprising 57.5% of registered voters, voted to remain in the United Kingdom, meaning the outcome was not affected by the boycott.

And by the way, Pat McDonagh, despite having been a teacher before he set up Supermacs, has chosen not to have any Irish at all in his restaurants. He knows there is no demand and it would be a waste of money. Not one to waste money is Pat.

So the best you can do is…Unionists are paying Nationalists back for not voting in a Referendum way back in 1973?

Claims busted along with any credibility tbh.

I'll try again;

'Was someone in Fermanagh speaking West Ulster Irish speaking a native language the day before partition and an imported language the day after?'

I note your weasel-word addition of, 'generally'. Despite your obvious intent, I'll disregard that.

As you can't point to a time when there was no Irish spoken in NI, by your own reckoning Irish never died out there though.

And that would be a reason not to support the imported English or cheerlead those trying to supress it?

When you go to order at a McDonald's machine you can choose irish. That is fact.

I never met a person to order from thier website. Do macdonalds even do deliveries??? Most people order at the machines in thier restaurants and have the option to order in irish.... fact. Get over it. You are completely wrong stating no non state company spends money on irish. When the biggest restaurant in the world does and supermarket chain that has the most amount of irish stores.