Quote Originally Posted by neloon View Post
It may interest some of you "Celtophiles" that Gaelic is spoken by about 80,000 people in Ireland and 60,000 in Scotland, whereas Welsh is spoken on a daily basis by 500,000 in Wales!
Alan

In the 2011 Census for the Republic of Ireland, about 83,000 people said they spoke Irish on a daily basis (excluding in school), but about 1.7 million claimed to be able to speak Irish.