The founding members of a new green socialist party has suggested taking ” Irish out of schools so people who come from foreign countries don’t feel excluded”.
Ex-Green Party members Cork City Councillor Lorna Bogue and South Dublin County Councillor Liam Sinclair sit on the interim committee of the new party. The suggestion regarding the Irish language was made by fellow committee member Ciara Noble.
In an interview with the Irish Independent, Ms Noble said the new party wanted a “huge push on the Irish language” but said that this should be done by removing it from schools.
“Maybe take it out of schools so people who come from foreign countries don’t feel excluded, introduce it some other way,” she told the Independent.
The new party, An Rabharta Glas, said it sought “a decentralised, decarbonised society centred around democracy”. It is critical of the Green Party which it sees as wanting to “get into government at all costs”.
Gript earlier reported that leaked documents from the new party showed a setback, however, with the passionate internal disputes about policy leading directly to the leaking of its internal documents in recent days to rival groups on the left, as well as to Gript.