Fuaireamar ríomphost inné faoin scéal seo a foilsíodh san Irish Echo sna Stáit Aontaithe ag deireadh na bliana 2008. Baineann sé le Athbhreithniú Breithiúnach ar an cosc Gaeilge a labhairt sna cúirteanna ó thuaidh.
Sa chás, dhein an iarratasóir agóid i gcoinne forála ó reachtaíocht a ritheadh i 1737 . Bhí athbhreithniú ar bhailíocht an chinnidh a dhiúltaigh iarratas an iarratasóra ceadúnas a fháil trí mheán na Gaeilge.
Scéal suimiúl atá ann agus níor tugadh móran airde dó sna meáin ó dheas ag an am. Ní bheidh cinneadh an athbhreithnithe ar fáil go ceann tamaill.
Brehons back Irish language courts fight
Demonstrators outside the Belfast law courts during the judicial review into the ban on the Irish language in the courts.
An influential group of Irish American lawyers is being urged to put the British government in the dock over a ban on the use of the Irish language in Northern Ireland's courts. Belfast attorney Michael Flanigan, who is championing a high-profile test case to overturn a 1737 British law which forbade the speaking of Irish in courts in Ireland and is effective to this day in Northern Ireland, says the Brehon Law Society could play a key role in highlighting what he called this "civil rights travesty." In recent years, the Irish language has been a political battleground in Northern Ireland with unionists continuing to block any official recognition for the language, this despite pledges to defend the language in the historic Good Friday agreement of 1998 which ushered in the new power sharing administration.
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