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Apple's iPad launch could be thrown off course by a last minute objection to the device's name by a small Irish American civil rights group. Boston-based Féach ar na Féilire claims it registered the name 11 years ago for a now-defunct online advice service for Irish Gaelic speaking immigrants in the US. Pádraig O'Súil, …

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  1. jake Silver badge

    Jaysus ...

    Issat t'best ye ken do?

    I might have to write a new RFC next year ... Kids these days. No clue.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Nice one.

    Second one of the day.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Business as Usual

    It appears that the name iPad has been used several times before, so it would be interesting to see who actually used it first. However it seems that this is business as usual for Apple, they have never been respecters of trademarks. They do, however, expect everybody else to respect theirs.

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  4. Peter Mylward
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    Almost had me

    I was close to falling for this until the "Mac means brother" bit, lol!

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  5. SimonF
    Grenade

    Sadly this could so easily be true.

    If it were not for the date I would have no problem accepting this as true.

    What a crazy world we have invented.

    Mahone, Butt and Mahone - will they handle my divorce I wonder?

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  6. MacRat
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    Sweet

    Good work

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  7. Paul 4

    American Irish

    "American Irish speaking community, in both America and Ireland"

    Isnt that just saying things like "oh to be sure to be sure" and talking about "The little people" rather than Gaelic? I do wish these yanks would drop that "I'm Oirish" thing. It just makes them, and us, look stupid.

    Is there even a large Gaelic speeking community (Other that those who have learnt it later in life to show how Oirish they are)?

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  8. Paul 4
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    Fuck.

    I forgot what day it is... I need coffee...

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  9. jai

    They ought go Boondock Saints on Cupertino

    Oh wait.... What day is it today?

    Perhaps I'll wait until tomorrow before believing this article, it's just too funny to be true

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  10. jeremyjh
    Pint

    A disgrace...

    http://goo.gl/vapP

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  11. Richard Gray 1
    Black Helicopters

    Fight on

    Ceann deas, tá súil agam go siad amadán a dhéanamh amach de Apple

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  12. Anonymous Coward
    Happy

    Good one

    Ok you nearly got me! I learnt Irish in school, but it still took me a while to realise what Féach ar na Féilire means!

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  13. Ruairi
    Joke

    WTF!

    Cad e sin? An bhfuil ciall ar bith ar an fhear seo?

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  14. FeO Head
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    OMD (Ó, mo dhia)

    Maith shibh, lads!

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  15. Sleepy 3
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    Oh god...

    Let me be the first to say that this tool in no way represents the Irish nation, most of whom couldn't give a toss about the Irish language, having had it rammed down our throats for the duration of our school years for no discernible benefit.

    And Mac is short for Macintosh you pillock, which isn't Irish for anything. I really, really hope you were being deliberately obtuse there, but I doubt it.

    Amadán.

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  16. imagespace
    Happy

    Sure faith and begorrah!

    Very good indeed. Butt , Mahone and Butt sound like real kick-ass dudes. Should get a result there.

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  17. Nigel Callaghan
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    Iontach!

    'nuf said

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  18. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    1th of april

    más rud é i láthair é seo an chéad d'Aibreán dhéanamh i buaigh cúig pounds?

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  19. Paul Frankheimer
    Boffin

    So what does ipad mean in Gaelic?

    The non-gealic, non-educated masses demand an answer.

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  20. Bert 1

    BEEEEEEEEEEEEP

    Rotten to the core.

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  21. Art Kavanagh

    Translation

    Presumably the pronouncement from the Apple spokesperson is meant to translate as "please leave a message after the tone", but I think something's gone wrong with it. Admittedly, my Irish is so rusty that it completely disintegrated a long time ago.

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  22. David Evans
    Coat

    Tumbleweed

    maybe we need an icon where YOU get YOUR coat...

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  23. Jimmy Floyd
    Linux

    Úll

    At least Apple have the decency not to force UK and Irish users to type with a US keyboard layout.

    Oh...

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  24. Ben Rosenthal

    did he also say

    "dere's more t Ireland, dan dis" while eating a potato? :D

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  25. irish donkey
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    Tiocfaidh Ar La.....Apple

    'admitted that Apple's lack of a response could've been down to the group's insistence on writing to Cupertino in Irish'

    No point in shouting at people if they don't know what you are saying. The Irish can be so sensitive not something I can personally comment on

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  26. David Robinson 1

    Mahone, Butt and Mahone

    As in Pogue Mahone? Kiss my arse.

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  27. LaeMing
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    And so it begins

    alas.

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  28. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Attorneys

    Ah yes, that well known firm "póg mo thóin", especially useful on April 1st...

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  29. Colin Barfoot
    Happy

    translator needed

    This one seems pretty universal,

    http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/translateforanimals/

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  30. craig chester
    Happy

    Aibreán amadán

    Níl aon amadán mhaith agus amadán Aibreán

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  31. Eoin_M
    Unhappy

    And so april 1st begins.

    Toisc gur fuaith loim an lá seo.

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  32. Anonymous Coward
    Joke

    teideal ag teastáil

    Tá mo madra aon srón.

    Conas a oibríonn sé smell?

    Uafásach ...

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  33. Anonymous Coward
    Grenade

    i wish...

    someone would slap the irish - as Rangers say, if they dont like it, go home, the potato famine ended quite some time ago.

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    1. Fartin Fantastic
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      Idiot

      You don't get jokes, do you....

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  34. Anonymous Coward
    Alert

    mmmm

    seiceáil amach aistriú roimh flaming google ...

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  35. AAWW
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    Beautifully done

    That is all

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  36. Wibble
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    Translation:

    I think it translates to: "diddley diddly diddley top of the morning bejesus"

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  37. Pete ThSplendiferous

    You need to get up a bit earlier than that!

    Mahone, Butt and Mahone you say?

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  38. Sorry that handle is already taken. Silver badge

    Oh dear

    Are these the same "Irish"-American idiots that complained about the coincidental orange banner on St. Paddy's?

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  39. Anonymous Coward
    Go

    Belfast accents

    I foresee issues in the Belfast apple store, as the locals struggle to pronounce the difference between the mp3 player "aye-pawd" and the tablet "aye-pad".

    </checks calendar>

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  40. Anonymous Coward
    Happy

    Indeed

    "...and had never localised its products for Irish and other Gaelic-speaking markets"

    What's so special about Gaelic? Apple don't even localise their stuff properly for the English speaking UK market!! Try finding a '#' key on a "UK" Mac keyboard - there isn't one - you have to guess where it is. And some of the other keys are in the wrong places too - by "wrong", I mean compared to what 99% of Brits are used to.

    As for "He admitted that Apple's lack of a response could've been down to the group's insistence on writing to Cupertino in Irish" - Hilarious!! No shit?

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  41. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    El Reg's new editorial policy, SOCRATES...?

    Some Over Cautious Readers Already Twig Elaborate Sendup... ;-)

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  42. AAWW

    Handy online dictionary

    For those of us who have no clue about gaelic:

    http://www.nic.funet.fi/~magi/opinnot/gaelic/irish-dic.html

    So:

    Féach ar na Féilire = look at the calendar

    Súil = eye, hence presumably Pádraig O'Súil = iPad

    That last sentence is beyond me though

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  44. plasteredwithmuppets

    Buiochas

    Go raibh maith agat leis an aibrean amaideach. Bain me taiteamh as :)

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  45. AAWW
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    Ah, got it...

    It's their answerphone message - something like "we're on holiday, please leave a message after the tone".

    Courtesy of http://www.irishdictionary.ie/dictionary

    This has actually got me mildly interested in learning the language, despite the fact that I never go to Ireland.

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  46. SuperNintendoChalmers
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    Nice one

    Nicely done :-)

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  47. Gordon is not a Moron

    hmmm

    two new authors on 1st April..... I smell a rat

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  48. Alien Doctor 1.1

    Not bad

    Gan olc, níos fearr ná Bad Krautspröse

    (I think)

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  49. A J Stiles
    Happy

    Féach ar na Féilire

    means literally "Look at the calendar" .....

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