Support for the Media
Magazines and Newspapers
Foras na Gaeilge has three schemes in this area:
An Online Newspaper Scheme: There are 328,311 individual users of tuairisc.ie, a daily electronic newsletter, as of the 15th of December, according to statistics provided to Foras na Gaeilge. This figure has increased from 200,770, recorded in 2015.
Lifestyle Magazine Scheme: According to statistics provided to Foras na Gaeilge, in 2018 there were 68,416 individual visits to the Nós website, a 44% increase on the previous year. The Nós Music Awards were held, aiming at new Irish language music, for the first time in 2015. More information is available here.
An Irish Language Magazine Scheme: Comhar provides a platform for Irish language journalism in a magazine in hardcopy form and online. A new peer review magazine was launched, COMHARTaighde during 2015.
Foras na Gaeilge undertakes various projects in conjunction with magazines and newspapers including the special supplement An Ghaeilge agus 1916 issued with The Irish Times in March 2016, a series of columns on the theme of the Irish language and identity (now available as an ebook) and the Sult magazine, issued with the Irish Daily Mail during Seachtain na Gaeilge.
Radio Stations
As well as funding magazines and newspapers Foras na Gaeilge funds two Irish language community radio stations through the Community Radio Scheme.
- Raidió na Life broadcasting to the wider Dublin area
- Raidió Fáilte broadcasting to the broader Belfast area
Portal Site for the Irish Language
Foras na Gaeilge’s Irish language portal site, Gaeilge.ie, provides information about Irish language organisations and projects to the public. The site acts as a gateway to the Irish language and as an information hub for anyone seeking information about the Irish language.
As well as this Foras na Gaeilge provides funding to Conradh na Gaeilge to provide the peig.ie platform. peig.ie lists job opportunities, events and news, to help the public to keep up to date with Irish language services available to them.
As well as the above areas, Foras na Gaeilge is active in the areas of reading and publishing and dictionaries and terminology.