SBP editorial: Language impasse not in the North’s interest

The political impasse in the North centres on what appears, on one level, to be an increasingly bizarre dispute over the recognition of one and possibly two minority languages and how much affording them legal status would cost taxpayers.

But this is an important issue on a number of levels. Language matters. Identity matters. For many nationalists in the North, the Irish language is an atavistic expression of the native self, and one ...