Search for ("irish language" gaeilge) speaker:Jerry Cowley (KildareStreet.com)

University College Galway (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (9 Feb 2006): Jerry Cowley: ...logical in that it purports to take a correct action. I am familiar with a case where a law lecturer was placed first for a permanent job. He felt very aggrieved because although he had passed the Irish language test on two previous occasions, he did not pass it on that occasion and so was not offered the job. It seemed quite inequitable to me. As it happened, the person who was first in...

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