The Irish language lobby group STÁDAS is organising a demonstration in Dublin at the end of April as part of its campaign to pressure the Government into seeking official EU status for the Irish language.
STÁDAS - a group comprised of representatives of Irish language groups, educators and legal figures - is planning the march to increase pressure on the Government while it still holds the EU presidency.
A cross-party motion calling for the recognition of Irish by the EU was passed by Dáil Éireann in February and up to 80,000 signatures have been collected in an online petition calling on the Government to ask that Irish be included as an official EU language.
There have been many calls for the inclusion of the Irish language on the list of official EU languages as it complies with all requirements and is used in official business at all levels of public administration in Ireland including the judicial, parliamentary and public administrative systems.
The planned march takes place on Saturday the 24th April and will gather at the Garden of Remembrance at 2 p.m., passing the GPO on its way to Dáil Éireann.