Repair works totalling almost €380,000 are to be carried out on a Tipperary Irish language centre, it has been confirmed.

Making the funding announcement, Rural Affairs Minister Éamon Ó Cuív said the restoration scheme at Dún Mhuire, in Nenagh, would involved improving the roof, indoor and outdoor plastering, installing a new ceiling indoors, as well as new floors.

The Minister said: "Dún Mhuire has been Nenagh’s Irish language centre for many years. The building is used to provide Irish-language services to the community.

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"When this work is completed, not only will these activities continue in the centre, but rooms will be provided for a naíonra and childcare services in which there will be a focus on the Irish language through song, rhymes, music, dance and drama in Irish."

He continued: "It is vital to create a young, vibrant Irish-language community throughout the country and we must provide high quality amenities to facilitate that and to provide them and other Irish speakers with an opportunity to meet in towns outside of the Gaeltacht and to use the Irish language in buildings and in facilities that are of a high standard."

(PR/BMcC)