Census shows 40% say they can speak the language with those in Donegal and Galway most likely to have higher standard
Among those who could speak Irish, one in four indicated that they never spoke the language.
In contrast, 27 per cent of Irish speakers aged 50-54 recorded that they spoke Irish either very well or well.It shows that a fifth of the Irish speakers in counties Galway and Donegal spoke the language “very well”, the highest percentage at county level recorded in the State. By contrast, there was a sharp increase in the number of people who finished full-time education when they were 25 years or older, up 48 per cent to nearly 375,000.Similarly, the proportion of the population who finished their full-time education at second level fell from 32 per cent in 2011 to 23 per cent in 2022.
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