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Brehons angered by court ruling

February 17, 2011

By Staff Reporter

Irish language activists have vowed to fight on after a judicial review in a Belfast court last week found that the British government is not obliged to repeal an act prohibiting the use of Irish in courts in Northern Ireland.
And their plans have been backed by a representative of the Brehon Law Society who flew from the U.S to observe the court proceedings.
New York attorney Domhnall O’Cathain described the continuing court block on Irish as “a relic of the era of the oppressive Penal Laws.”
Mr. Justice Treacy found Belfast man Caoimh

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