{"id":60216,"date":"2025-09-12T20:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/60216\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T20:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:14:08","slug":"liz-kimmins-open-to-dialogue-on-grand-central-irish-language-row-after-laughing-stock-comments-from-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/60216\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Kimmins open to dialogue on Grand Central Irish language row after \u2018laughing stock\u2019 comments from judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Minister open to Executive dialogue \u2018to avoid legal action\u2019 over Grand Central Irish language row\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins (Liam McBurney\/PA)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a381d27-68ac-45aa-8d56-6b3d2ef4d95b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins (Liam McBurney\/PA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Stormont\u2019s Infrastructure Minister has said she is willing to engage in dialogue over bilingual signage at Grand Central Station after stinging remarks from a High Court judge who branded the Executive a \u201claughing stock\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/courts\/judge-urges-executive-to-resolve-row-over-grand-central-irish-language-signs-and-avoid-being-seen-as-a-laughing-stock\/a702396499.html?bcrFallback=bcrFallback\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">On Thursday<\/a>, Mr Justice McAlinden called on ministers to enter discussions over the inclusion of Irish language signs instead of spending vital public money on a legal battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minister open to Executive dialogue \u2018to avoid legal action\u2019 over Grand Central Irish language row Infrastructure Minister Liz&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,15409,43092,6,11,12,43093,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-60216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-garrett-hargan","13":"tag-grand-central-station","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-latestnews","17":"tag-liz-kimmins","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories","23":"tag-world","24":"tag-world-news","25":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}