The other piece of advice I need is about how to have something I can do daily through Irish.

For other languages, I followed Belgian politics, a football club or a soap. Politics and football worked out better than the soap because there was plenty of written material each week with genuinely big news and I could read for two minutes a day or an hour depending on my time and I could see the spellings and use a dictionary.

I was hoping to start following Gaelic football but I can't find what website is the place to go for football coverage in Irish. Is it possible to follow football (or any Irish sports in general) exclusively through Irish, and be up to date and well informed?

http://tuairisc.ie/category/sport/ is the best I found. What do others think of it? Any better sites?

Then I thought about following current affairs in Ireland. The articles at RTE Nuacht is one option but it's pretty patchy: The soccer team qualifying for the Euros on Monday, front page news on every newspaper, didn't get a single mention - but there's plenty of coverage of the government announcing funding for various things.

tuairisc.ie has a "national news" section but 6 of the 10 front page stories are about the Irish language. Now, I'm delighted that news of Irish language issues is available, but I'm looking for an overview of what's going on in the country in general. Any suggestions?

Again, thanks in advance (and for the course advice from my previous thread).

Have you tried Beo.ie ?

There are a few people who write blogs in Irish. You might find something here that catches your interest http://indigenoustweets.com/blogs/ga/

Some of the blogs haven't been updated in years but you can check the most recent date for each blog in the far right column.

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I did, but I'm looking for daily news. (Beo.ie also seems to be inactive since 2014.)

Finding time to learn a language is hard, so instead of adding new activities I try to replace my activities in English with activities in the other language. I currently spend twenty minutes a day on irishtimes.com, so I'm looking for a replacement in Irish, a site where I can get a reasonable quality of information about what's happening right now in sport or current affairs.

But thanks for the suggestion.

Blogs are a difficult tool for learners because it can be impossible to know the writer's level of Irish. Could be non-fluent, or a native writing in their dialect, or a native with poor spelling.

But you're right, there's a chance I'll find something I find very interesting. I'll give it a look.

Funnily enough you'll find native Irish speaking writers rarely have bad spelling. Native speakers tend to be very afraid of being "wrong" when they write Irish, so that only those who take extreme care actually write. Many think they have incorrect grammar when really it's fine (e.g. not using the genitive has been in Irish for centuries).

However I'd much rather native speakers just wrote, in fact their spelling "errors" are often the most interesting part as they show you how they speak.

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Ar sgáth a chéile a mhairid na daoine, lag agus láidir, uasal is íseal

Read books.

There's Anam Beo published in Brussels - so there must be some Irish speakers living there, and there's www.nuacht24.com, antuairisceoir.com - I don't know if the Seachtain - Ar Fheabhas supplement is still being published, but someone in Dublin should know about that.

I'm working up to that :-) I've already a list of a few I'll read but it's probably a year away.

Daily sports news is a great way to get started because there's a certain core vocabulary that repeats, so once you've learned those words you can always get something out of an article. Current affairs is the next best. Novels are harder. Plus, I'm going to read about sport and Irish current affairs anyway, so I won't have to make time for it, I'll just read sites in Irish instead of English.

What sites do the native speaking population rely on for sports and national current affairs news?

It's a bit late now, but in March they had a Seachtain na Gaeilge sa Bruiséil - if you look it up you could find out who organised it and what they're planning for next year. There's Irish in Europe.org who have a chapter in Brussels. In 2013 - so I've no idea if it's still going on, but you never know - the Is Leor Beirt scheme was on at The Old Oak Franklinstraat 26 - last Wednesday of every month 6 - 8 pm (contact Nicola Tzonkov) as well as at Stapleton's Standonckstraat 4 Leuven - every Sunday at 7 pm.