Rte One / Rte Two

I'm not a regular viewer, as I don't have NTL and my picture quality here is not the best, but I watch the odd thing.

I've noticed over the past week or two a few token announcements being made in the Irish Langauge, and I don't mean before 'Nuacht' or just saying 'Radio Telefis Eireann'.

I thought that, in recent years, they only did this on St Patrick's Day, so I assume there has been some sort of policy change.

Any other info on this/observations/thoughts?

mabey you just switched it on at a right time

rte two i really doubt would say anything in irish!

rte one, is most likly.
usually before the news, programes in irish, or possibly irish heritage shows they speak irish

The usual policy, for as long as I can remember is that only announcements before programmes in Irish are themselves in Irish. All other announcements are in English. Except on St Patricks Day.

Of course there are always the "Radio Telefis Eireann, you're watching RTE ONE" befiore the news...

Well they definitely did yesterday before The Simpsons. Some spiel about sport, methinks.

Well it is the First language of the state.

First, but most defintely not Foremost, as the debate on RTE ONE's 'PrimeTime' this evening surely confirmed.

There definitely has been a move towards Irish language intros in the last couple of weeks or so. Not quite sure what's behind it. We are in the lead-up to St Patrick's Day I suppose and RTE always run those little Irish language campaigns during this time. It may just be a case of RTE showing their support or doing their bit for that.

Someone has just been telling me that it's 'Seachtain Na Gaeilge', an initiative every year about this time for the promotion of the Irish Language, encouraging people to at least throw the odd 'cupla focal Gaelige' into their everyday (and normally Bearla) conversation, etc.

Sin é!

Ar an Idirlinn: http://www.snag.ie/Home2.asp

(As Bearla, of course!)

I listen a lot to Today-FM and also notice that they are using Irish from time to time recently.
On RTE-One this afternoon, the CA introduced the RTE news at 1pm as "Nuacht as bearla....." my irish is not that good, but translated it means "Now news in english..."
Strange goings on at the national stations me thinks !

this week is called SEACHTAIN NA GAELIGE which means "Irish Week" so that is why this has gone on (said above)

they had interviews with people who speak irish ect on the AFTERNOON SHOW on RTE One all week

Ah, so that explains why I kept hearing "Beidh an nuacht ar ais ar (x) uair a chlog" and "An spoirt agus an aimsir seo chugainn" on Today FM a few weeks ago when back home...

Do they still have news bulletins in Irish on 2FM during the afternoon? I think they were at 12.30pm (always remember them during The Golden Hour, using a news intro sting first launched back in 1989 as late as 2002!) and 2.30pm during Steve O'Wrightahan in the Afternoon