Dyma stori "Slugger"
JOURNALISTS at the first daily newspaper in Ireland to be published in Irish - Lá Nua - have received their notice. Love it or loathe it, the newspaper fought the corner fiercely for the Irish language community, and its demise is something that would be pretty heartless to celebrate.
Un o'r atebion oedd..
Lá Nua hasn’t gone yet. It will be published until the end of February.
The nub of its current problems arise from mounting costs associated with printing and distribution and, it has to be said, the failure to get any state advertising north of the border.
As a means of tiding it over until the political climate turned slightly in its favour Lá Nua proposed to Foras na Gaeilge that it would publish on the internet only on a daily basis, with a weekly omnibus print edition to be distributed among subscribers and from Irish language centres such as the Cultúrlann in Belfast and similar centres throughout Ireland.
Foras na Gaeilge didn’t respond to this proposal until it was announced on the paper’s front page on Monday morning. It was intended to begin on March 3 and given that Lá Nua has pioneered the PDF edition in Ireland and now it can be read in full animated technicolour it wasn’t an entirely unreasonable or unattractive proposition. The PDF version can also, of course, be printed and in this greener climate it actually might not be a bad idea that newspapers were only printed as required, particularly when it’s a newspaper in a minority language we’re talking about.
