Dáil debates
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
Leaders' Questions
12:10 pm
Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
It is also deeply embarrassing that the Government used Google translate for the Irish language section of the 1916 website, with the result that the section was reduced to gibberish. It is shambolic and symbolic of the Government's attitude to the anniversary and, more importantly, to the proclamation and the Irish language. It seems that most of the time the Government cannot do anything right but in this case it is a Freudian reflection of the Government's attitude because it accurately conveys the Government's approach. The reason the Government will not mark the 1916 Rising appropriately is that it is opposed to the social, economic and democratic input and intent of the Proclamation of 1916.
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