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- Irish Independent
University of Galway defends new non-Irish speaking president amid Sinn Féin ‘step backwards' claims
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The University of Galway has defended its newly appointed president after the Sinn Féin spokesperson for Gaeilge said the university had taken a 'step backwards' by hiring a president with no Irish.
Sinn Féin spokesperson for Gaeilge Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD wrote to the newly appointed president of University of Galway, Professor David J Burn and the chairperson of Údarás na hOllscoile, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, seeking an urgent meeting to discuss the status of Irish in the university in the wake of the decision.
