{"id":571988,"date":"2026-07-28T11:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/571988\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:41:09","slug":"irish-language-signs-added-to-ride-at-disneyland-paris-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/571988\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish-language signs added to ride at Disneyland Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Irish language has come to Disneyland Paris after “F\u00e1ilte” and “Sl\u00e1n go f\u00f3il” were added to its famous ‘It\u2019s a Small World’ attraction for the first time.<\/p>\n

Founder of a Disneyland Paris fan community and official content creator for the park Stuart McHugh started the campaign two years ago.<\/p>\n

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Mr McHugh said the campaign was a representation of the Irish language.<\/p>\n

Speaking on RT\u00c9\u2019s Morning Ireland, Mr McHugh explained why he wanted to have Irish included in the theme park: “I am no massive campaigner… I don\u2019t speak go leoir focail day to day. I went to an Irish primary school, so I lost it long ago. My kids now go to an Irish Gaelscoil.<\/p>\n

“I just love the language, I love Irish representation on a global scale, a European landscape,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Mr McHugh mentioned that Walt Disney has strong Irish connections, having had a great-grandfather from Kilkenny.<\/p>\n

He also said that Mr Disney wore a claddagh ring on every statue of him at his parks and studios and filmed ‘Darby O’Gill and the Little People’ in Ireland.<\/p>\n

He added that the Disney creator had a “great gr\u00e1” for Ireland.<\/p>\n

Mr McHugh said he visits Disneyland Paris every month and his work as a content creator for them means he has approval to attend PR events, get exclusives and he has access to Disneyland management.<\/p>\n

“I used that time to lobby certain high figures in Disneyland Paris to get the Irish language in,” he said.<\/p>\n

“All over the world people want their language there [in Disneyland Paris].”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Irish language has come to Disneyland Paris after “F\u00e1ilte” and “Sl\u00e1n go f\u00f3il” were added to its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-571988","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\/571988","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=571988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}