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23rd August 2022
11:44am BST

We have vandalism on all sorts of signs around the county and nobody condemns it. But yet when somebody takes a stance on the Irish language we treat it as vandalism. I am delighted that this issue has been brought into the public domain and perhaps now we can have a public debate about it. In my opinion all signs in Donegal should only ever be in Irish in an effort to encourage the Irish language which is being eroded day after day. Gaelic is used by our councils and Government merely as a gesture and in a patronising way and it never gets the first place it deserves.He also said that many of the English translations for Donegal place names do not make sense. His fellow councillor Councillor Michael McClafferty has criticised the graffiti, saying it will cost the tax payer thousands and does nothing to solve the Irish language debate. He said:
This ideology of thinking solves nothing at all, apart from putting pressure on the resource purse for new signs when required. And then we have to wait until funding becomes available in many cases. Locals get angry due to lack of progress.Header image via Shutterstock READ NEXT: Which Irish celeb should take over as host of Love Island?