As the Irish sign language is the primary language of the
deaf community, Cllr. Tom Doherty has proposed that Killarney Town Council give
full recognition to it as the third language of
our State.
There is no official recognition of this Irish visual
language despite calls to make Irish Sign Language the third official language
in Ireland, after Irish and English. Irish sign language
is an independent language with a structure and grammar different from that of
English.
Other countries officially recognise their own indigenous
sign language such as Iceland and Belgium for example. Cllr. Tom Doherty has called on the government to recognise “Irish Sign
Language” .
tomkillarney@yahoo.ie 087 2942260
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