I suspect that will be news to most (97%) of Irelands population :-) Ireland is very much an English speaking country with Irish coming a distant second despite both being 'official' languages and the latter being our traditional tongue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_European_Unio...
https://www.cso.ie/en/csolatestnews/pressreleases/2023pressr...