Galway Bay fm newsroom – A new Irish language report has found that Galway City Council achieved the third highest compliance rating nationwide - for delivering its services through Irish last year.
The report by an Coimisinéir Teanga also shows the city council was the only local authority in the country which committed to providing a fully bilingual website.
Galway County Council has achieved the highest compliance rating for its commitment to delivering services through Irish in the Gaeltacht areas.
20 percent of local authorities surveyed achieved the second highest grade for implementing their commitments for the most part - meaning that 80 percent, were either complying to a certain degree or were non-compliant with the requirements for the most part.
Two local authorities, Longford County Council and Mayo County Council, achieved the second highest compliance rating.
The 2019 Monitoring report from the office of an Coimisinéir Teanga assesses the implementation of a range of duties placed upon public bodies under the Official Languages Act.
