Ray D'Arcy

being exempted from it for whatever reason, that's not, in the long term, that's not good for the language.

I remember being envious of a guy who came to our primary school from England and he had one of those exemptions.

His name was David and he never had to do Irish.

And it wasn't that I didn't like the language.

It was, as everyone, you know, as everyone says, it was the way it was taught and we had buntus cointe and all that sort of thing.

It just seemed...

particularly difficult.

And we were all jealous of David.

Well, I can't speak for everybody, but I think most of us were jealous of David that he got an exemption from the Irish language, which shouldn't be the case.

It's our national language.

We should be proud of it.

And we're not going to solve it here.

And there's been hundreds and hundreds of discussions over the years as to what we can do to keep our language alive.

And as I say, we're going through a proper patch.

So it's all good.

It's all positive.

All positive.

Not so positive on this beautiful beach in Sardinia.

It's a beach called Punta Melentis.

And if you know what I'm talking about, I'm very jealous because it looks beyond idyllic, those Punta Melentis.