Dublin has applied for Irish to become an official language of the European Union.
Ireland's ambassador Anne Anderson formally tabled a proposal at a meeting of EU ambassadors in Brussels on Wednesday (24 November).
The proposal stops short of asking that all documents be translated into Irish.
"We recognise that there is a problem with the linguistic services - that they are overworked", said an Irish diplomat.
Instead, for a temporary period of four years, Irish woul...
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