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Originally Posted by Chad
I personally don't see any reason why Virgin would want to add BBC Alba to their line-up. Depending on what report you read there are only 55,000 to 80,000 people in Scotland who speak Gaelic, none of the Gaelic speakers use it as their first language. It's mainly spoken in the North West of Scotland including Skye, Lewis etc. Do Virgin offer cable up there? Trust me if all you want it for is the re-run of one of the SPL games per week you'll get bored very, very quickly. The SPL is murder.
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If things hadn't gone well in 1945 you'd be speaking German and practising your English in secret!
As a fellow former oppressed Celtic nation
, Ireland has largely lost its native tongue and I am ashamed to say that my knowledge of French and other European languages far exceeds my abilities in Gaelic.
In Ireland, there has been an increase in efforts to keep the Irish language alive in recent years. We have always had daily radio and TV news bulletins in Gaelic and have had an Irish language radio station (
http://www.rte.ie/rnag/) since 1972. More recently, a television station (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TG4), broadcasting a significant proportion of its programming in Irish as well as French, Polish and English, was launched in 1996 with transmissions in Northern Ireland beginning in 2005.
On a trip to the Czech Republic in about 1998, before the big influx of Eastern Europeans into the UK and Ireland, I was surprised to be told, by a red-headed Czech tour guide, that many Czechs were travelling to Ireland to study the Irish language. Apart from the Irish pubs etc., there was a lot of Irish business investment going on it Bohemia at that time.
I think it is important to keep the Irish Gaelic, Scots Gallic and Welsh Cymraeg languages alive and it is only right that there should be national language radio and TV channels, funded by the licence fee or other public funding in the relevant country and available to all.
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Originally Posted by howardmicks
Phoned Sky today,Wont offer me the deal so i cancelled.That is saving me £19.00 subs and another £8.00 protection cover and as a bonus have got a nice new white door stopper(Sky+ box)lol
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I'll have the box for a token fee and postage for my in-laws who are in a fringe area between the Oxford and Sandy Heath transmitters and have fuzzy Channel four, have never had Five and now have limited digital coverage. The previous owner of their house left a Sky mini-dish behind so they're ready to go, they just need a box.
Having said that, you might like to get a FreeSat-from-Sky card for £20 and continue to use it for the free-to-air and free-to-view channels either in another room or for recording while you watch something else on VM.