A chara, - Your editions of Monday October 5th carried a report claiming that TnaG is failing to attract viewers. I live in the Cloughaneely area of west Donegal where Gaelic is spoken by the vast majority of the people. In my day to day consultations and visits with people I speak Gaelic 90 per cent of the time. Cloughaneely is a vibrant Gaeltacht and the Gaelic spoken is of a very high standard with almost no recently borrowed words from other languages. However, there is no reception - I mean technically, not culturally - for TnaG, so that I, like many others in this area, have never seen it.
I think it is ludicrous that an expensive venture such as TnaG could have been launched without first ensuring that people who actually live in the Gaeltacht and speak the language on a daily basis would have resource to the station. I am confident that if this had been a private sector venture and not a State-sponsored one it would never have been launched without making sure that its most sympathetic constituents could in fact receive the signal.
Having said that, I believe that TnaG should continue to try and attract viewers throughout the nation and not narrow itself to a community TV station for Gaeltacht areas only. - Is mise, Dr Lochlann Mc Gill,
Falcarragh Health Centre, Co Donegal.