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THE GOVERNMENT HAS announced a scholarship fund worth €50,000 to allow 50 students from Deis secondary schools to attend Irish colleges in the Gaeltacht during the summer.
This is the first time such a scheme will be made available to students in Deis secondary schools.
The fund is being rolled out in in accordance with the commitment made under the Government’s Irish Language Action Plan 2018-2022, which was launched in June 2018.
The scholarships will be issued nationally by the Galway and Roscommon Education and Training Board (GRETB) in conjunction with the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
Minister Kyne launched the fund at Pobalscoil Móinín na gCiseach in Galway City this afternoon.
“As a result of this measure, 50 students, who may not have had this opportunity in the conventional way, will have an opportunity to go to the Gaeltacht and attend an Irish college for three weeks,” Minister Kyne said.
“There certainly are requirements with this fund to afford students attending DEIS secondary schools the opportunity to attend a course in the Gaeltacht during the summer,” he said.
“This practical measure is not only of benefit to the Irish Language and the Gaeltacht regions but it will be of benefit to society as a whole in terms of social inclusion.”
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What’s a Deis school?
@thephantomshit: google it a chara. Níl sé ró-dheacair.
@thephantomshit: It’s a school where the principals name is Dessy.
@thephantomshit: I went to one because it was local, they generally take in kids that have been thrown out of other schools and have nowhere else to go, and try provide them an education. Works well for the kids that are in that position, but for others like me that went there, most of the classes were spent tryna calm said kids down and disrupting the entire class.
@Sean Murphy: I also went to one, that happens with a lot of schools in disadvantaged areas with students that have been there since day 1 of first year, not always to do with taking kids in (I’d wager those ‘disruptive students’ mostly start in DEIS schools anyway so are just going from one disadvantaged school to another). Disruptive students existed well before 2005 when DEIS was the label put on our schools!
@Sean Murphy: What? Is that just rambling? Its a school in a disadvantaged area and the children start at primary level
@Trevor Rooney: not rambling but it was the case in my one. Kids thrown out of other schools were sent to mine, which made for a bad mixup.
@Sean Murphy: not right
@thephantomshit: A DEIS school is a school is a disadvantaged area.
@Sean Murphy: not correct. A Deis school is a school generally located in an area that has low socio economic status. As a result it receives more funding for initiatives in literacy, numeracy etc. The vast majority of children attending these schools are wonderful little people, not children who have been kicked out of other schools.
@Caoimhín Ó Seanáin: It’s a news article. Should be self explanatory.
@Caoimhín Ó Seanáin: With respect to the writer of the article. If written well there is no need to Google. Not so here.
@thephantomshit: disadvantaged socially and economically.
When I taught in the Gaeltacht in the late 80s-to the end of the 90s, there were always children sent on scholarships from various VECs in Dublin /Wicklow. Ní h-aon rud nua é seo.
Go deas le feiceáil. Níos mó de na rudaí seo
Great initiative for everyone involved! Reassuring to see such positive steps taken by the Dept. of Education towards equality for all students.
Más mall is mithid …
As if we don’t torture them enough!
@Patrick Nolan: Who? The people of the Gaeltacht?
@Leadóg:
The people/state wasting money trying to shovel a dead language down peoples neck.
@Patrick Nolan: Check up dead in a dictionary.
@Patrick Nolan: you really are such an oiltanker.
I have my doubts about the value of trips to the Gaeltacht. To me it just reinforces the idea that Irish is something that ‘other people’ speak ‘over there’. Are there any shops or coffee shops in our towns or villages where cuireann na daoine ann fáilte mór roimh na gaelgóirí óige? This would surely encourage the view that Irish is normal in every community?
@sean o’dhubhghaill: another way to look at it is that many children leave the Gaeltacht with an increased sense of excitement and fondness of the language, mainly through the memories they’ve made there. These trips also provide a boost to the local economy of the Gaeltacht areas. There are plenty of positives regarding trips to the Gaeltacht, of which I have only named a few. Beatha teanga í a labhairt!
@sean o’dhubhghaill: A Sheáin, a chara, as someone who spent every summer sáite sa Ghaeilge gach samhradh during my teenage years, I can report that the grá for the language that I developed in my stays with Eoin Ellen Ó Baoill, Charlie MhicÍ, Micí Charlie Hiudaí, Hiudaí Mhary Dhuibh and Roise Mhicí (on Trá a’ Chaisil in Árainn Mór) infused a love for it that has enriched my life no end.
Our ancestors left their voice in the names they gave to the places where we live today and in the names we call ourselves by. We are duty bound to ensure that that voice continues to be heard.
Open your minds a chairde. Tá saol agus oirdheacht amuigh ansin ar linn go léir é.
@Caoimhín Ó Seanáin:
*Oidhreacht (mo leithscéal)
@sean o’dhubhghaill: Tá anseo i gCeatharlach ar aon nós .
End of ghaeltacht! Ok Bud?
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