>Caolán Mac Grianna of Cna G said: “Instead of sending us these bills they have sent us repeated legal threats as Béarla”
That statement is like something from Waterford Whispers. Thank fuck he said Béarla or I would have refused to engage with it.
Ethno terrorism.
Edit, once again a joke dies at the hands of r/Ireland
See you in court motherfuckers.
It’s a bold strategy Cotten, let’s see how it works out. (Can someone translate to Irish please, 12 years of being thought Irish hasn’t rubbed off)
While I take the point that government services should be available through Irish, the correct way to deal with this would be by doing something interesting, like offering to pay the bill minus €800 “for every year of oppression of the national language, continuing, apparently, to this day” or something like that. Eventually pay the balance when Irish water (who have now renamed themselves in Irish!) send a bill in Irish.
Just refusing to pay their water bill makes them look like freeloaders.
I thought all government correspondence and bills were sent in Irish too? Uisce eirann is a government body.
>People in Ireland have a constitutional right to communicate with Government departments and public services through Irish.
What a puritanical stance.
I wonder if he has the same principles with all interactions with public services. For example, if he had to go to a public doctor or a hospital in an emergency, would he refuse their assistance because they don’t speak Irish?
>”Once we receive correspondence from them in Irish we’re happy to pay the bill,” he said.
>“Even in the past week they’ve been in touch with us In Irish but we’re just waiting to get the bills through in Irish, which we’ll be happy to pay then.
The original bill they didn’t pay was sent in Irish.
>CnaG confirmed it has received customer support from the utility through Irish.
>The organisation said that it last received a bill in Irish for its regular six-month charge of €185.91 in 2021, along with arrears owed of over €5,000, also notified in Irish.
In technical terms, this is known as ‘wankerish’ behaviour, irrespective of the rights or wrongs of the language argument. Just makes that crowd look like sulky toddlers.
(But still, at some point won’t this whole Irish language requirement become highly contentious, given the number of citizens and residents who do not speak it? Must a very highly qualified Polish person (and Irish citizen) be effectively barred from a civil service job because they can offer only excellent English? I could foresee litigious people bringing cases against some govt body for discrimination on some basis, and actually winning.)Though perhaps the correct response is that fluent Irish is a legitimate requirement for the job. That one could be challenged too, by a canny advocate. I’m not arguing in either direction; it just popped into my head reading this post and I started futile pondering!
There was an Irish Language Taliban guy arrested somewhere, with two of his buddies painting over street names they perceived to be English named, like Mountjoy Square or Landsdowne Road etc.
The dude and his two buddies appeared in Court and he insisted on having the case heard in Irish. The Judge asked the two buddies if they could speak Irish- they couldn’t, so the Judge said that the case should proceed in English.
Next thing the case was up in the High Court who deemed that the Gaelgor lad had a constitutional right to have his case heard in Irish, so you had the farce of a District Court case proceeding, in Irish, with two Irish language translators brought in for the buddies…
Should have had their water turned off before the bill got so high.
Fucking idiots!
Nobody tell them about road signs and how the Irish is squeezed in
Being difficult for the sake of being difficult. Pay the bill and stop being pricks.
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>Caolán Mac Grianna of Cna G said: “Instead of sending us these bills they have sent us repeated legal threats as Béarla”
That statement is like something from Waterford Whispers. Thank fuck he said Béarla or I would have refused to engage with it.
Ethno terrorism.
Edit, once again a joke dies at the hands of r/Ireland
See you in court motherfuckers.
It’s a bold strategy Cotten, let’s see how it works out. (Can someone translate to Irish please, 12 years of being thought Irish hasn’t rubbed off)
While I take the point that government services should be available through Irish, the correct way to deal with this would be by doing something interesting, like offering to pay the bill minus €800 “for every year of oppression of the national language, continuing, apparently, to this day” or something like that. Eventually pay the balance when Irish water (who have now renamed themselves in Irish!) send a bill in Irish.
Just refusing to pay their water bill makes them look like freeloaders.
I thought all government correspondence and bills were sent in Irish too? Uisce eirann is a government body.
>People in Ireland have a constitutional right to communicate with Government departments and public services through Irish.
What a puritanical stance.
I wonder if he has the same principles with all interactions with public services. For example, if he had to go to a public doctor or a hospital in an emergency, would he refuse their assistance because they don’t speak Irish?
>”Once we receive correspondence from them in Irish we’re happy to pay the bill,” he said.
>“Even in the past week they’ve been in touch with us In Irish but we’re just waiting to get the bills through in Irish, which we’ll be happy to pay then.
The original bill they didn’t pay was sent in Irish.
>CnaG confirmed it has received customer support from the utility through Irish.
>The organisation said that it last received a bill in Irish for its regular six-month charge of €185.91 in 2021, along with arrears owed of over €5,000, also notified in Irish.
In technical terms, this is known as ‘wankerish’ behaviour, irrespective of the rights or wrongs of the language argument. Just makes that crowd look like sulky toddlers.
(But still, at some point won’t this whole Irish language requirement become highly contentious, given the number of citizens and residents who do not speak it? Must a very highly qualified Polish person (and Irish citizen) be effectively barred from a civil service job because they can offer only excellent English? I could foresee litigious people bringing cases against some govt body for discrimination on some basis, and actually winning.)Though perhaps the correct response is that fluent Irish is a legitimate requirement for the job. That one could be challenged too, by a canny advocate. I’m not arguing in either direction; it just popped into my head reading this post and I started futile pondering!
There was an Irish Language Taliban guy arrested somewhere, with two of his buddies painting over street names they perceived to be English named, like Mountjoy Square or Landsdowne Road etc.
The dude and his two buddies appeared in Court and he insisted on having the case heard in Irish. The Judge asked the two buddies if they could speak Irish- they couldn’t, so the Judge said that the case should proceed in English.
Next thing the case was up in the High Court who deemed that the Gaelgor lad had a constitutional right to have his case heard in Irish, so you had the farce of a District Court case proceeding, in Irish, with two Irish language translators brought in for the buddies…
Should have had their water turned off before the bill got so high.
Fucking idiots!
Nobody tell them about road signs and how the Irish is squeezed in
Being difficult for the sake of being difficult. Pay the bill and stop being pricks.