Replying To Crashingwaves:  "How do you know if people were co-operative or not? Irish was the native language spoken in many parishes east of the Corrib when the GAA was founded but it gradually died out. There is a voluntary organisation in Loughrea, Gaeilge Locha Riach that's does trojan work for the language in the area. When you hear some of the Galway hurlers speak English there is still a strong influence of the Irish language in their speech. When you hear most Dubs speak Irish you'll hear the opposite, the structure, the sounds and expressions are from English, a direct translation in most cases. Which is more traditional?"

Replying To BarneyGrant:  "On re-reading this, you are surely not claiming that people not speaking Irish but English with Irish idioms is preferable to someone speaking Irish???"

Replying To Crashingwaves:  "You didn't answer my question. You're like the Kerryman who answers a question by asking another one!"

Replying To BarneyGrant:  "Do I think someone from Galway speaking English is more "traditional" than someone from Dublin speaking Irish?

That woud be a no!"