Why Paul Mescal speaking Irish shows teaching it is 'a failed experiment.'
"Take Paul Mescal as a classic example - there's a young lad, not long out of his Leaving Cert I would say," she said.
"Is that not the proof you need that forcing Irish down children's necks from the age of four, in the way it's taught, has failed."You don't learn a language by being handed a picture book at the age of four - you learn it by immersion".Brenda said the way it is currently being taught is"doing the language an awful disservice."
"The way to go is to incentivise it with maybe extra Leaving Cert points, in the way we do Higher Level Maths.'The system does work' "So, for example, in an Irish school, if someone wanted to do medicine, they may have to choose between Biology and Irish in the future".He denies that teaching the language has failed, but admits changes are needed."If you look in the North of Ireland, where they don't have Irish in the educational system, only about 7% of those in the North would say they have some level of Irish - whereas in the South, it's more than 40%.
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