How many people speak Gaelic? Census records number fluent Gaelic speakers(this link will open in a new window) in Scotland around 57,600, or approximately 1% of the ...

Iechyd da or "good health", said as cheers before a drink is now in the Oxford English Dictionary. The free weekly sessions are held to encourage people to access the language, Culture Vannin says.

“Gaslighting” entered the Oxford English Dictionary as far back as 2018 and cannot these days be legitimately considered as slang. The second complaint related to the “colloquialism” used ...

The Celts believed that on the eve of Halloween, dead spirits would visit the mortal world. They lit bonfires to keep evil spirits away and dressed in disguises. Although our Halloween is less ...

A Gaelic singer who became a "global superstar" more than 100 years ago is to be remembered at next month's Royal National Mòd. Oban-born Jessie MacLachlan sang for Queen Victoria and performed ...

The spread of Gaelic signs across Scotland is “offensive”, Andrew Marr has said. The veteran broadcaster argued it was “ridiculous” that bilingual signs had been erected across parts of ...

Andrew Marr has issued an apology over his comments about the Gaelic language when he called a sign at Haymarket ‘offensive’. The broadcaster said it was ‘ridiculous’ that a sign at the ...

Glasgow-born broadcaster Andrew Marr has apologised after describing the prominence of Gaelic signs in Scotland as “offensive”. Speaking during a question-and-answer session with Scottish ...

WITH the club championships getting more serious as the weeks pass, we look at some of the players who are putting their hands up with key performances. Started with seven on his back but major ...

Gaelic games is once again the big winner in the distribution of the Government’s €230 million Community Sport Facilities Fund after grants of almost €97 million were awarded to GAA county ...

IT'S the sad and ignorant old trope that never dies ... prominent opponents of independence complaining about Gaelic language signage in Scottish train stations on the factually incorrect grounds that ...

The broadcaster and columnist Andrew Marr has hit the headlines with a remarkable outburst against gaelic language signs at the Labour Party conference. Marr’s outburst came as the Scottish Labour ...