Ah, the numbers in my head we 90k Chinese speakers and 60k Irish speakers, but I couldn't figure it out from the reports on the census. Do you have a reference I can look at?
In actual census (2011) numbers, it's 15,000 Chinese speakers (presumably as a grouping) and 1.7 million Irish speakers, 110,000 of whom speak it on a weekly basis outside of education.
The number of Polish speakers just about beats Irish with almost 120,000.
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Actually, there's around half the number of native Chinese speakers (~60k) as there is native Irish speakers (~120k).
Ah, the numbers in my head we 90k Chinese speakers and 60k Irish speakers, but I couldn't figure it out from the reports on the census. Do you have a reference I can look at?
In actual census (2011) numbers, it's 15,000 Chinese speakers (presumably as a grouping) and 1.7 million Irish speakers, 110,000 of whom speak it on a weekly basis outside of education.
The number of Polish speakers just about beats Irish with almost 120,000.