{"id":298,"date":"2011-08-24T20:29:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T20:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/demand-for-irish-courses-at-university-highlights-growth-and-demand-deputy-sean-crowe\/"},"modified":"2011-08-24T20:29:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T20:29:06","slug":"demand-for-irish-courses-at-university-highlights-growth-and-demand-deputy-sean-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/demand-for-irish-courses-at-university-highlights-growth-and-demand-deputy-sean-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Demand for Irish Courses at University highlights  growth and demand \u2013 Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Times; font-size: small;\"><strong>Demand for Irish Courses at University highlights\u00a0 growth and demand\u00a0\u2013 Deputy Se\u00e1n <span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times; font-size: small;\">Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Education Spokesperson Deputy Se\u00e1n <span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span> believes the growth in \u00a0demand for Irish language courses at  Universities across the country illustrates the importance of retaining  the language within the school curriculum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times; font-size: small;\">Deputy <span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span> said<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times; font-size: small;\"> \u201cDespite the economic downturn, the  demand for Irish language courses at Irish universities remains  consistent. There has been little or no change in the number of points  required for the numerous courses listed in the first round of CAO  offers which have Irish as a joint subject or the primary language of  instructions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times; font-size: small;\">\u201cThere has also been a significant  increase from last year in Irish language broadcasting and journalism  courses and these figures\u00a0reinforce the importance of retaining Irish as  a core subject within the school curriculum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times; color: #2f2f2f; font-size: small;\">\u201cHaving the  opportunity to be educated through Irish should be a constitutional and  legally enshrined right of every Irish citizen and we need to protect  its existence for generations to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times; color: #2f2f2f; font-size: small;\">&#8220;These latest  statistics show that rather than considering measures which will  contribute to the dissolution of Irish, the state should be taking  constructive steps to strengthen, support and encourage its growth,&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demand for Irish Courses at University highlights\u00a0 growth and demand\u00a0\u2013 Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Education Spokesperson Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe believes the growth in \u00a0demand for Irish language courses at Universities across the country illustrates the importance of retaining the language within the school curriculum. Deputy Crowe said \u201cDespite the economic downturn, the demand for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}