{"id":6475,"date":"2014-11-21T15:24:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T15:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foras.ie\/\/?p=6475"},"modified":"2014-11-21T15:25:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T15:25:55","slug":"19112014-leitrim-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foras.ie\/en\/19112014-leitrim-observer\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->19\/11\/2014 Leitrim Observer<!--:--><!--:GA-->19\/11\/2014 Leitrim Observer<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en--><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Bernard Dunne coming to Leitrim to support plans for second level gaelscoil<\/span><br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px;\">\n\tThe Dublin Dynamo, champion boxer and celebrity presenter of Br&oacute;d Club (RT&Eacute;) Bernard Dunne will address a public meeting in the Glens Centre, Manorhamilton at 7.30pm on Thursday, 20th November in support of plans to open Col&aacute;iste Loch Gile, an Irish medium secondary school servicing Leitrim, Sligo and South Donegal.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px;\">\n\tParents and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leitrimobserver.ie\/news\/local-news\/bernard-dunne-coming-to-leitrim-to-support-plans-for-second-level-gaelscoil-1-6426505\" id=\"KonaLink0\">primary&nbsp;school<\/a>&nbsp;pupils in 4th, 5th and 6th class are particularly welcome to attend.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px;\">\n\tOther speakers being confirmed include Brendan &Oacute; Dufaigh, principal of Col&aacute;iste Oriail the 2nd highest transfer to university secondary school in Ulster, P&aacute;draig &Oacute; Baoill: Founding committee member and History teacher in Gaelchol&aacute;iste an Eachr&eacute;idh (Loch R&eacute;idh) and Katriona Kerrigan, a past-pupil of an Irish medium secondary school and teacher in Gaelscoil Chnoc na R&eacute;, Sligo.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px;\">\n\tIt is envisaged that the Irish medium secondary school, Col&aacute;iste Loch Gile, will commence in September 2015.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px;\">\n\tPupils from all lingustic and cultural backgrounds will be most welcome at this&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leitrimobserver.ie\/news\/local-news\/bernard-dunne-coming-to-leitrim-to-support-plans-for-second-level-gaelscoil-1-6426505\" id=\"KonaLink1\">new&nbsp;school<\/a>&nbsp;which will serve pupils who presently attend English-medium schools in the Northwest as well as those attending Gaelscoil Chnoc na R&eacute; in Sligo, Gaelscoil Chluain&iacute;n in Manorhamilton, Gaelscoil Liatroma in Carrick in Co. Leitrim, and Gaelscoil Eirne in Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px;\">\n\tThe benefits of immersion education, and in this case education in Gaelic medium school, where all subjects except English are taught through Irish, has been well documented over the past three decades.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px;\">\n\tResearch by the Department of Education in Northern Ireland shows that pupils of Irish-medium schools attained a higher&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leitrimobserver.ie\/news\/local-news\/bernard-dunne-coming-to-leitrim-to-support-plans-for-second-level-gaelscoil-1-6426505\" id=\"KonaLink2\">academic&nbsp;standard<\/a>&nbsp;than other pupils in the same age group.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px;\">\n\tStudies here show that pupils of Irish-medium schools achieved levels greater than the national average in reading and writing in both Irish and English.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px;\">\n\tFurther studies have indicated that students in Gaelic medium schools perform as well as if not better in mathematics than their peers in English medium schools.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px;\">\n\tData from other European countries shows that bi-lingual children learn further languages with greater ease.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px;\">\n\tResearch also shows that students from Irish medium schools have a greater tolerance of other cultures and are more open to cultural diversity due to the cultural enrichment they experience in these schools.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px;\">\n\tA similar meeting wil occur on Thursday, November 27th in Dorrian&rsquo;s Hotel, Ballyshannon at 7.30pm on Thursday, 27 November.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 15pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:10.5pt; font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#222222\">Further Information: Anna N&iacute; Bhroin, Cathaoirleach Coiste Bhunnaithe Col&aacute;iste Loch Gile, (087) 0667600 eolas@colaistelochgile.net<o:p><\/o:p><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--:--><!--:GA--><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foras.ie\/\/en\/news-media\/19112014-leitrim-observer\/\">T&aacute; an p&iacute;osa seo ar f&aacute;il i mB&eacute;arla amh&aacute;in<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernard Dunne coming to Leitrim to support plans for second level gaelscoil The Dublin Dynamo, champion boxer and celebrity presenter of Br&oacute;d Club (RT&Eacute;) Bernard Dunne will address a public meeting in the Glens Centre, Manorhamilton at 7.30pm on Thursday, 20th November in support of plans to open Col&aacute;iste Loch Gile, an Irish medium secondary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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