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Bealtaine Healy-Rae-Nua ✅️

@RejoinEU @amckinstry "Eire" is an Irish-language word meaning "burden". I think you mean "Ireland"?

14 Oct 2024 at 10:33 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.ie
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@Tarbh @RejoinEU @amckinstry
Or maybe he doesn't know how to type a fada?

14 Oct 2024 at 11:19 | Open on mastodon.ie
Bealtaine Healy-Rae-Nua ✅️

@dec23k @RejoinEU @amckinstry Sure. But does he also get the Eurostar to Francais before driving on to Nederland, Deutschland and Osterreich? Or would he just write France, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria?

If so, then why "Eire"?

14 Oct 2024 at 11:32 | Open on mastodon.ie
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@Tarbh @RejoinEU @amckinstry
"Is fearr Gaeilge bhriste ná Béarla cliste"
:ffs:

14 Oct 2024 at 12:40 | Open on mastodon.ie
Bealtaine Healy-Rae-Nua ✅️

@dec23k @RejoinEU @amckinstry You don't really believe for a moment that Simon was trying to use Irish, do you? I'm sure he's lovely and all, but it was a use of "Eire" that I found condescending, when he should have used "Ireland", which is, unfortunately, all too common.

14 Oct 2024 at 13:45 | Open on mastodon.ie
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