The Court of Justice of the European Union can hear cases in any of the bloc's 24 official languages. English and Irish are Ireland's official languages but no cases had been brought in Irish since it joined the EU in 1973.
The Irish High Court ruled the State had flouted the EU regulations, but given that from 2022 new EU rules would mean Ireland no longer has to use both languages in such labelling, it asked the court in Luxembourg whether it was worth ordering the use of both languages for just a few months. "My client is very satisfied that he is one of the parties in the first case before the Court of Justice that has Irish as the language of the proceedings," Sean Ó Cearbhaill, the applicant's solicitor, said.
Absolute waste of resources and money... pointless exercise...
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