Irish is part of the celtic group of languages that include manx, scottish, welsh etc. both english and irish are official languages in ireland but only a small minority are native irish speakers even though it is thought at all levels in our schools.
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>>I have been using 7.23 for a few weeks now, on win 2k, as i wanted to check a few cross browser issues and i have had no problems at all, actually when i tell it to emulate ie6 it acts better than ie6!!
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>Yes, I would like to switch to the latest version, but the problems I had seem more related to a problem in the OS installation than specifically with Opera. Oh, well, perhaps I will try the latest version - I had tried with version 7.11, but perhaps version 7.23 resolves those issues.
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>>Slán means goodbye in irish
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>Excuse my ignorance, but do the Irish have a separate language? I had imagined them to speak English.