Irish scrabble launched
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By JOHN FALLON
A new way has been found for young children to learn to speak Irish following the development of Junior Scrabble as Gaeilge.
The new game, aimed at kids aged four to eight, was unveiled in Galway at the weekend at the Tóstal na Gaeilge conference.
And plans are advanced to bring out an Irish language version of Scrabble — which was created in 1938 — later this year.
The Irish language Junior Scrabble is fully licensed by the game’s manufacturers and will feature 40 words.
Eoghan MacCormaic, a development worker with Glór na nGael who created the new game says that it is designed as a half-metre square floor puzzle for young players.
“It is both a jigsaw puzzle and a spelling game,” he said.
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