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About this episode
Gerry Adams discusses the challenges faced by Irish medium schools in Belfast following the Good Friday Agreement.
A few weeks after the Good Friday Agreement was agreed in April 1998 I brought a delegation of the Board of Governors of Bunscoil Phobail Feirste, on the Shaws Road in west Belfast, to meet the British Secretary of State Mo Mowlam. I asked for the meeting after the Department of Education had again denied funding to the school for the construction of permanent school buildings. The Department had just announced a £33 million schools building programme which excluded Irish medium schools and n...
People in this episode
Host: Gerry Adams
Topics covered
- education
- Irish medium schools
- Good Friday Agreement
- politics
- Palestinians
Keywords
- Gaelscoil na Móna
- Good Friday Agreement
- Mo Mowlam
- Belfast
- Irish medium education
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Bunscoil Phobail Feirste
Places: Belfast
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