Bilingual Béal Feirste!

This campaign is now over.

Between September and November 2024, Belfast City Council consulted on a draft Irish language policy for the first time ever. We expect Belfast City Council will publish the results of the consultation very soon. At that stage we will need renewed community efforts to ensure the recommendations from pobal na Gaeilge are reflected in the final policy.

Belfast City Council are currently undertaking a 14 week consultation into a draft Irish language policy for the very first time.

Belfast City Hall has long presided over a culture of limited progress on Irish language rights and has been hailed by many in the past as a 'monolingual empire', offering no official space for Irish or its community of speakers in its structures, spaces or policies.

This policy, if adopted as is, would be a significant advancement in the ongoing quest for language rights and would give the Irish language its rightful place within the council.

Take a moment to have your say.