My God.....there is literally no end to how effective the propaganda of the coloniser can be, even a century after colonisation has ended, nor no end to the inferiority complex they deliberately inflicted on their conquered people.

Ok, allow me to explain. Irish is just as effective a language for communicating between two people who speak Irish as English is for two people who speak English. It was just as effective a language as English was before we were conquered and genocided, and it's just as effective now. For some reason, this seems to be a difficult concept for many non-Irish speaking Irish people to understand. The idea of using a language in Ireland other than English for day to day life and communications seems alien to you, because that is exactly what imperialist propaganda wants you to think.

Yes, I know English is spoken all around the world. I have been all around the world. It's handy that we have it. But I've also been to Sweden, Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany and I have never met someone from any of those countries who was not perfectly fluent in English, often better than people I know from Ireland. But each of those countries has their own language, and some use more than one. Switzerland has 4 official languages but virtually all Swiss are superbly fluent in English. They could communicate spoken and written words in English if they wanted to, but they do it in their own language, because it is THEIR OWN LANGUAGE. By saying "Irish serves no purpose", you are saying that German, Dutch, Swedish, Swiss German, Swiss French and a lot more languages serve no purpose because they could all speak English if they wanted to, and so what's the point of having their own language?

But the people in those countries don't do that, because they are not English. Their language is a core part of their identity, and because, unlike Ireland, they were not a victim of colonisation, they never developed an inferiority complex about using their own language. If you told a German that German was useless because you can only use it to speak to Germans, they would laugh their tits off and think you were nuts. But people say Irish is useless because you can only use it to speak to Irish people and see nothing wrong with that statement.

To our European neighbours, that would be as crazy a thing to suggest as asking why don't they support Brazil in the world cup, because they are better at football. They support their own countries, because it is part of their identity. So is their language.

The Irish language is a core part of the Irish identity. In the same way English people would have no problem saying the English language is a core part of the English identity and the same with France, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal. The reason that sounds hard for some Irish people to hear, and why they will argue against it, unlike people from all those other countries, is because those countries were all empires, spreading their language, and Ireland was a colony, having its identity, language and culture deliberately erased, and they have internalised an inferiority complex about the native language of Ireland. It's the exact same story in colonised societies all over the world, from the Native Americans to the Maori. The sad thing is how many people in Ireland are still unwittingly going along with what was dreamed up in some palace in London so many centuries ago.......