Madam, - Last weekend the airwaves and our ears were polluted by a veritable chorus of mispronunciation by Fine Gaelers at their get-together in Cork.
Would their Gaelic-speaking leader, who supposedly encourages and fosters the first national language, ever tell his cohorts that the two Gaelic words "Fine Gael" are not pronounced "Feena Gale" and so stop the language being ritually murdered? - Yours, etc,
VERA HUGHES, Moate, Co Westmeath.
A chara, - Enda Kenny has outlined plans to make Irish a non-compulsory subject in the Leaving Certificate. Would it be presumptuous of me, then, to suggest that our second national language, English, also be made optional? - Is mise,
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SEÁN Ó LÓGÁIN, Teach Lorcáin, Co Átha Cliath.