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thumb Traffic sign, meaning "Yield Right of Way", in County Waterford
The current population of the Gaeltacht regions is approximately 85,000 with major concentrations of speakers in the western counties of Donegal, Mayo, Galway, Kerry, and Cork. There are smaller concentrations in the counties of Waterford in the south and Meath in the east.
The Department of Community, Rural & Gaeltacht Affairs, under the leadership of the Minister for Community, Rural & Gaeltacht Affairs, is responsible for the overall Irish GovernmentThe Government ( Irish: Rialtas , also known as the Government of Ireland is the cabinet that exercises executive authority in the Republic of Ireland. The Government is headed by a prime minister called the Taoiseach, and a deputy prime minister called t policy with respect to the Gaeltacht, and supervises the work of the Údarás na Gaeltachta and other bodies. Raidió na GaeltachtaRTE Raidio na Gaeltachta RnaG Irish for Gaeltacht Radio is the Irish language radio service of Radio Telefis Eireann in Ireland, and is available on 92-94FM in Ireland and via the Internet. It began broadcasts on 2nd April 1972, and was the second legal r is the RTÉRadio stations Radio Telefis Eireann RT English: Radio and Television of Ireland is the national state broadcaster of Ireland. The radio service began on January 1 1926, while regular television broadcasts began on 31 December 1961. Principal stations Tel radio stationA radio station is a site configured for broadcasting sound. Traditionally, radio stations have broadcast through the air via radio waves (a form of electromagnetic radiation), sent through a transmitter and antenna. Today, many if not most stations broad targeted at the Gaeltachtaí and Irish language generally. TG4TG4 1 is a television channel for speakers of the Irish language which was launched on 31 October 1996; it was known as Teilifis na Gaeilge or TnaG before a rebranding campaign in 1999. It has some organisational links with the Irish state broadcaster, Ra is the television stationA television station is a type of radio station that broadcasts both audio and video to television receivers in a particular area. Traditionally, TV stations made their broadcasts by sending specially-encoded radio signals over the air, called terrestrial which is focused on promoting the Irish language and is based in the County Galway Gaeltacht.