Clare is lagging behind the rest of the country when it comes to the number of pupils attending Gaelscoileanna.<\/p>\n
New figures released by the Department of Education show under 5% of those in primary or secondary schools in this county are being taught through Irish.<\/p>\n
The data released to Sinn F\u00e9in TD Barry Ward in a response to a parliamentary question reveals there are between nine and 10 Gaelscoileanna per county on average.<\/p>\n
Despite this, Clare currently has just four.<\/p>\n
While 6.5% of pupils nationally are attending a Gaelscoil, this falls to 4.9% here.<\/p>\n
Turning to childcare, just 2% of Clare children go to a wholly Irish-medium setting, which is below the national average of 4%.<\/p>\n
3% go to mixed medium facilities where both Irish and English are used, which is in line with national trends.<\/p>\n
The figures also show that 43% of Clare children attend an English-medium setting where some Irish is used.<\/p>\n
By comparison, just 33% of children nationwide go to a childcare facility of this nature.<\/p>\n
This means 48% of children in a childcare setting in Clare experience the Irish language compared to just 40% across the country.<\/p>\n
You can hear more on this story on Clare FM\u2019s Morning Focus this Tuesday morning from 9am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clare is lagging behind the rest of the country when it comes to the number of pupils attending…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-421290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}