Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There are still 70- and 80-year-olds in Baile Chláir who are native Irish speakers. It changed from a dispersed population when Baile Chláir grew dramatically population-wise and as a town. There are native Irish speakers from areas like Móinteach and Cathair Ghabhann who are still alive. When I got into politics 30 years ago there were quite a number of fluent speakers there, just as there were in Menlo in Galway. It seems that this drive for development destroyed the language very quickly because, as Ms Loughnane rightly pointed out, they are a dying breed and there is no succession of the language there. Sin an cheist atá agamsa. Má thosaíonn muid ag déanamh an rud céanna sa Cheathrú Rua, an ndéanfaimid an scrios céanna?