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Fine Gael Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Spokesperson, Michael Ring TD, has said that people in Gaeltacht areas have been let down by Raidio na Gaeltachta’s decision to cut the weekly live broadcast of Sunday Mass in Irish and called on RTÉ to review the move.

A Galway based design agency recently launched the latest version of the award winning Abairleat e-learning website.

Independent Television Company Abú Media, which was set up 10 years ago by Pierce Boyce and sisters Eileen & Bríd Seoighe, has recently embarked on a new expansion plan bucking the trend in the current recession.

An education conference which will be held at NUI Galway later this month will look at an emerging method of teaching languages which is gaining popularity across Europe.

The Linguistic Study of the Use of Irish in the Gaeltacht, published in 2002, focused attention on the fragile state of Irish as the community language of the Gaeltacht and of the need for emergency measures to protect and strengthen it.

The fact that it is never ever too late to start something is evidenced by the increasing numbers of adults who are determined to finally make a fist of learning Irish. Reasons abound, whether personal or professional, and numbers attending Irish-language classes and conversation groups in various parts of the county remain firm.

At a time when job losses are at a high in the first recession since 1983 a ray of light came for 69 people who gained employment in the Mayo Gaeltacht in 2009.

Rith 2010, an innovative way to promote the Irish language through a 1,600 km relay-run, will begin in Belfast on March 9 and finish in Galway city on St Patrick’s Day.

Gaelscoil Mhic Amhlaigh is to move to the next stage of architectural planning which will eventually see pupils no longer having to take classes in portacabins.

Gaeltacht development body Udaras na Gaeltacht is to change its name to an even longer one.