What's Irish for Too Little Too Late?

I see Bertie Ahern has criticised Aer Lingus for changing their policy of making announcements in Irish and English on their flights out of Belfast. Isn't it curious that he didn't have anything at all to say when Aer Lingus cancelled their flight schedule from Shannon to London in January yet he managed to rouse himself to comment on this issue? I'm sure the people in Shannon who lost their jobs wil be pleased that Bertie is defending the use of their national language, since he didn't seem too concerned about their livelihoods..

I had to laugh too at breakingnews.ie translating the little bits of Irish in the article (cuple focal and Failte romhaibh chuig an mBruiseil) into Englsh. In the interest of all concerned parties, however, shouldn't they have translated the rest of the document into Irish?

Joking aside, I think I'm with Bertie and Enda Kenny on this one. A lot of the work we do for Government agencies has to be produced in Irish as well as English. Annual Reports for public companies are printed in both languages too. Sometimes it seems like a monumental waste of time to spend days producing a document in Irish that you know will only be printed in very small numbers and never taken from the shelf. For all the incovenience though, I'm quite proud of it and would be sad if we stopped having to produce these Irish documents. The Irish language is part of our heritage and it should be protected when necessary and encouraged when possible.

Which reminds me, what's Irish for sausage, egg and chips...