No train operating company bosses were prepared to criticise the confusion publicly. But off-record, some are exasperated by a perceived lack of leadership.

The gap between Western and Eastern societies seems to be narrowing.

I phoned a government office but nobody there had any Irish so I couldn't do my business with them in Irish. Amn't I entitled under the Act to conduct business with any Government office in Irish?

Unlike some contemporary queens who converted their husbands to orthodox belief, Brunhild was an Arian Christian who was converted to orthodoxy when she married Sigebert.