POOLS3-14

 

Title: Lynette Fay gives an inspiring speech

 

Summary: Broadcaster Lynette Fay inspires pupils at the AS Study day on Ulster University's Belfast Campus to take an interest in Irish outside of the classroom

 

 

Lynette: While I was studying at University I was always doing other things outside of the classroom because I think that is the most important thing about Irish, that it's a language, that it's a means of communication, and that's what I took with me and outside the classroom I was always debating or singing or doing something connected with the language and which brought the language to life for me and which built a relationship with my friends and, therefore, I have friends still whom I only speak Irish to and as a result of that and as a result of those activities that we were involved in especially at school and university. Friends who I can see here today, there were, in spite of the fact that I was in Galway, other people in Coleraine, people in Belfast, Irish always brought us together a couple of times a year and we have been very close and very friendly since then.