The almost total collapse of modern language teaching in UK schools has been decried in a number of articles in the British media recently.
The requirement to take a language at GCSE was dropped in 2004, so I guess the demise was inevitable. Many sixth form colleges no longer even offer languages.
Ireland is not the UK, and a direct comparison cannot be made, but it should serve as a warning to us over here that if the message is sent out by governments that certain subjects are of less value than others, there will be consequences.
Firstly, a couple of things about the UK system which I believe are flawed.
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