A number of Gaeltacht residential programs for secondary faculty pupils have been cancelled for the third yr in a row due to Covid-19.
Coláiste na bhFiann, which runs programs within the Connemara, Meath and Donegal Gaeltachtaí, mentioned the rise in Covid-19 numbers have left them with no alternative however to cancel once more.
Coláiste na bhFiann príomh fheidhmeannach (chief govt) Caitríona Ní Cheallaigh has written an e mail to oldsters stating there are are “far too many variables out of our management, which we really feel would make it unimaginable to run programs efficiently this summer season”.
It adopted a threat evaluation to ensure that enough workers can be available to make sure a excessive commonplace within the programs.
The choice was additionally made in session with host households within the Rosmuc, Ráth Chairn, Gaoth Dobhair and Droim Rí areas.
“We’re very disenchanted to should make this resolution once more, however the well being and security of our college students and workers and the usual of our programs, should be our main concerns in any resolution we make,” she wrote to oldsters.
Mother and father pay between €750 for a two-week course to €1,000 for a three-week course for his or her youngsters to attend Coláiste na bhFiann Gaeltachtaí.
Coláiste na bhFiann has been internet hosting households within the Gaeltacht for 46 years aside from the final two years due to Covid-19.
It goals for whole immersion within the Irish language and has programs which cater for varied skills.
Those that paid deposits will now have them totally refunded.