Originally Posted by RogerIrrelevant69
captwannabe,
Good suggestion. Not only will that keep out Johnny Foreigner, if properly applied and tested (by Gael Linn at the very least) it should exclude about 80% of the Republic's population too thereby reducing the number of future applicants to about 10.
Ah now, I didn't mean they had to be fluent Irish speakers or to be able to write grammatically correct Irish. But, they should be able to pass the higher level Leaving Cert exam.
I think it is possible they will start a scheme through CTC. They have already hired a few CTC graduates, and it won't cost them anything until they hire the cadets.