Calling all Gaeilgeoirí.

I was on the phone, going through my personal details. We came to the section about my relationship status, and the man asked if I was married, single, divorced, etc. I hesitated, saying: “I’m dating someone, does that count?”, and he answered, “don’t worry about your boyfriend, we’ll put you down as single for the purposes of this form.”

From the way you move and sleep, to how you interact with people around you, depression changes just about everything, writes Mohammed Al-Mosaiwi.

The Higher Education Minister says it will help graduates on a personal level and boost their career prospects.

A language test for new applicants for Irish citizenship is under consideration, a senior Department of Justice official said in Killarney, Co Kerry, where more than 3,500 people from more than 160 countries officially became Irish citizens.

More than two out of five people would like to learn Irish and speak it more often but support is not as strong in Northern Ireland, a survey suggests.

Latest: Brexit could present new opportunities for English language schools here.

Ireland is still the number one destination of choice for international English Language students.

The census shows that number of daily Irish speakers in Gaeltacht areas continues to plummet, writes Elaine Loughlin Political Reporter.

The councillor accused of blacking out street names in Cork called after Britain’s Queen Victoria had his evidence translated from Irish in Cork District Court yesterday, but he said the Irish-language issue in the proceedings should be referred to the High Court, writes Liam Heylin.

More than 1.75m people can speak Irish — but fewer than 74,000 do so every day outside of the education system.

The number of students taking more than one foreign language for Leaving Certificate has jumped in the last two years.

New languages for Junior Certificate students, Chinese as a Leaving Certificate subject, and formal school courses in Polish all feature in government plans to redress shortfalls in the learning of foreign languages.

Mrs Foster faced furious criticism recently after she said she would not be supporting the introduction of an Irish Language Act.

Words find themselves with new meanings all the time, but it’s the speed with which they are changing that Colm O’Regan has concerns with this week.

Irish language advocates say people aren't being given the opportunity to use their 'cúpla focail'.

We are great ones for regulations in this country. We imagine that as soon as some new policy or other has been put to paper that it will take on a life of its own and solve a myriad of problems. The reality is often very different.

Irish diplomats received over €820,000 worth of tuition in Swahili, Hebrew, Chinese, and other languages since 2013, records show.

The European Commission in Ireland has moved to calm concerns that English may no longer be an official language at the European Union after Brexit.

A new technique to teaching foreign tongues takes a starting point as word similarities rather than differences, writes Conor Power

Economic plans should be based on hoping for the best, but planning for the worst. And those of us over a certain age will remember the fear we had to question a teacher when we did not understand what he had said.

Our schools need to teach Arabic. The act of trying to speak another’s language is a respect, writes Victoria White

How many different ways are there to speak English?

Immigrants to the US should “speak American”, former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said, adding to a debate triggered by Donald Trump’s criticism of fellow White House Republican hopeful Jeb Bush’s use of Spanish.

It's the worst thing since JIFFS.

People here learn Irish “to pass exams” but in the North they are motivated by the love of it, an official study has found.