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Two language interpreters widening understanding in Northern Ireland

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Viewers of news conferences involving ministers from Northern Ireland's power-sharing administration have noted how not one but two sign language interpreters are involved.

The politicians who have featured most often in the news briefings about the pandemic emergency are The First Minister and DUP leader, Arlene Foster, and the Deputy First Minister, Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill.

In the past language and the provisions for Irish made available in Northern Ireland were a source of tension between the DUP and Sinn Fein.

But the sign language arrangements in place at the Covid-19 news conferences are not to cater for the English-speaking and Irish-speaking communities.

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