SO THIS IS THE THINGS NORTHERN IRISH PEOPLE CAN EXPECT
An Ulster peer is taking up the gauntlet for a family who have been refused permission to buy a dream home in Connemara because their Irish isn't good enough.
Lord Laird, former chairman of the Ulster Scots Agency, said he was prepared to take the matter to the European court.
He argued that under European human rights law the Northern Ireland man and his wife could not be banned from buying property because of a language barrier.
And the Ulster Unionist accused politicians in the Republic of "outrageous hypocrisy" for lecturing to northerners about human rights when such practices existed in the south.
This is the first time anyone has been prohibited from occupying a new property in the Gaelteacht because of provisions to protect Irish.
The family want to live and integrate into the Gaelteach.
They are angry that they have been disqualified and are appealing to the council to reconsider.
They argue that the ban is "unfair" and "discriminatory".
A council spokesman said that an applicant who failed the test could take it again.
Lord Laird said that he had already raised the issue with the Human Rights Commission in the Republic but said it was like coming up against a "stone wall".
"They don't take an interest in anything they think will embarrass the state," he claimed.
"It is illegal to discriminate against anyone on the grounds of their language under European law.
"It says in the Belfast Agreement that the Republic would introduce human rights legislation to at least the equivalent level of Northern Ireland.
"Nowhere in Northern Ireland are you excluded from holding property because you can't speak a certain language."
now many in the north mainly protestant's dont know or speack gaelic and it's not taught in the schools yet so would they be disavantaged by rule that govern the republic like the police force they have changed the requirment for foreigners does that count if northern ireland becomes apart of the free state maybe some of these laws need to be changed to make the people from the north feel that they would be welcome anywhere on the island as it is today they would be excluded from certin areas
An Ulster peer is taking up the gauntlet for a family who have been refused permission to buy a dream home in Connemara because their Irish isn't good enough.
Lord Laird, former chairman of the Ulster Scots Agency, said he was prepared to take the matter to the European court.
He argued that under European human rights law the Northern Ireland man and his wife could not be banned from buying property because of a language barrier.
And the Ulster Unionist accused politicians in the Republic of "outrageous hypocrisy" for lecturing to northerners about human rights when such practices existed in the south.
This is the first time anyone has been prohibited from occupying a new property in the Gaelteacht because of provisions to protect Irish.
The family want to live and integrate into the Gaelteach.
They are angry that they have been disqualified and are appealing to the council to reconsider.
They argue that the ban is "unfair" and "discriminatory".
A council spokesman said that an applicant who failed the test could take it again.
Lord Laird said that he had already raised the issue with the Human Rights Commission in the Republic but said it was like coming up against a "stone wall".
"They don't take an interest in anything they think will embarrass the state," he claimed.
"It is illegal to discriminate against anyone on the grounds of their language under European law.
"It says in the Belfast Agreement that the Republic would introduce human rights legislation to at least the equivalent level of Northern Ireland.
"Nowhere in Northern Ireland are you excluded from holding property because you can't speak a certain language."
now many in the north mainly protestant's dont know or speack gaelic and it's not taught in the schools yet so would they be disavantaged by rule that govern the republic like the police force they have changed the requirment for foreigners does that count if northern ireland becomes apart of the free state maybe some of these laws need to be changed to make the people from the north feel that they would be welcome anywhere on the island as it is today they would be excluded from certin areas
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