Sir, – I’m pleased that every garda will be issued with a laminated list of basic Irish phrases, following an incident in which a man was stopped for a minor road traffic matter was arrested, handcuffed and detained at a Garda station until an officer with sufficient knowledge of Irish could be found to deal with him (Home News, March 13th).
As well as basic questions, such as “Cad is ainm duit?”, may I suggest including “An bhfuil tú ag dul to dti an Dáil?” to the list. – Yours, etc,
PATRICK O’BYRNE,
Shandon Crescent,
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Phibsborough,
Dublin 7.