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Fri 01 Jan 2007Where are all the Irish speakers?Irish is now a working language of the EU, but writer and broadcaster Manchán Maganis taken aback by hostile reactions as he travels the country speaking only its native tongueThere is something absurd and rather tragic about setting out on a journey around a country, knowing that if you speak the language of that country you will not be understood. It is even more absurd when the country is your native one and you are speaking its native language.