Was It For This?

22 thoughts on “Was It For This?”

1. Bacchus November 13, 2014 at 4:48 pm

   There’s no excuse for that. None.
   1. andyourpointiswhatexactly November 13, 2014 at 4:57 pm

      +1. Fupping disgrace.
2. scottser November 13, 2014 at 4:59 pm

   ta me not surprisiocht
   1. Padi November 13, 2014 at 5:07 pm

      Yep, tres uafásach!

      Gives a nice little insight in to the total disdain with which the average public/civil servant has for their job.
      1. JoesephT November 13, 2014 at 5:17 pm

         Careful now Padi,I think the civil service is doing a splendid job and i wont have you going around speaking about them in …emmm…..yeah,they’re pure lazy sh1te.
      2. scottser November 13, 2014 at 5:18 pm

         i’d say most public sector employees have sod all irish. chances are this was outsourced on a very, very tiny budget.
         1. JoesephT November 13, 2014 at 5:26 pm

            outsourced by a public sector employee to somebody that was paid to do the job but could not do the job and nobody checked to see if the work was done to a reasonable standard.
            1. scottser November 13, 2014 at 5:46 pm

               in a nutshell, yep.
3. Starina November 13, 2014 at 5:17 pm

   i don’t understand the logic behind that at all. would there not be irish speakers working for the department specifically for irish text???
   1. HappyDub November 13, 2014 at 5:22 pm

      That’s the point. It would have took five minutes for someone to do, but nobody gives a fliuch.
   2. Frilly Keane November 13, 2014 at 10:06 pm

      Ah no comrade
      Demarcation rules

      Public Sector Agreements state members are only allowed translate Irish inta English

      ‘Need ta get back to the table and negotiate a new allowance
4. Quisling November 13, 2014 at 5:22 pm

   There should be, Starina. Every department *technically* has staff fluent in Irish to be able to deal with any citizen wishing to do their government business through that medium, as is their right. What’s really annoying me about this though is that there are any number of Irish speakers who would have happily translated that text, without charging a fortune (which is in and of itself irrelevant given the government budget for same).

   Ugh. I despair.
5. Spaghetti Hoop November 13, 2014 at 5:23 pm

   Imbeciles. I hope they’re confronted in the Dáil and questions actually answered …..for a change.
   1. JoesephT November 13, 2014 at 5:38 pm

      Even if they are there will be no one held accountable.
6. Stewart Curry November 13, 2014 at 5:49 pm

   So placeholder text was used until the correct translations were available… what should we do with all these pitchforks?
   1. JoesephT November 13, 2014 at 6:23 pm

      Move them to a different department after where they get payed more.
7. downtowntrain November 13, 2014 at 6:47 pm

   What’s the Gaeilge for beta?
8. Liam from Lixnaw November 13, 2014 at 9:01 pm

   do we know what lazy bunch of sods this was outsourced to?
9. Frilly Keane November 13, 2014 at 10:10 pm

   D’ya know what we should do….

   Bring Mary Hanafin back…..

   Yeah. I’ve had a drink
10. Clampers Outside! November 13, 2014 at 11:43 pm

    Jaysus…
11. Hashtag Diversity November 14, 2014 at 5:53 am

    I just ran the video through Google Translate – “LinkedIn, FaceBook, Google” = “12.5% tax rate”
12. Brian November 14, 2014 at 11:44 am

    Most likely a non-Irish-speaking civil servant created draft text for it with the intention that a proper translation would be made before it was published, but the higher grade non-Irish-speaking civil servant reviewing it failed to understand the situation and signed off on it as it was.

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