evidence: It was no great surprise then that the language re-emerged time and time again in political negotiations as the community continued to assert their demands for bespoke language rights. In 2006 at St Andrew’s, an Irish language Act was promised by the British Government, in an attempt to fill the void left by the lack of language rights enshrined in the 1998 legislation. At Hillsborough in 2010, the Irish Language Investment Fund was established and funded £8million by the British Government to support community capital and capacity developments across the north. The Irish language continued to be an outstanding issue simply because it was never comprehensively addressed by any single agreement, nor were many of those commitments ever truly fulfilled. And whilst community frustrations grew and grew, political unionism’s opposition to the language, and regressive, petty and often sectarian attacks, ensued. The language would be mocked and ridiculed, while schemes or initiatives set up to promote the language would be cancelled or cut by Unionist Ministers. The decade following the St Andrew’s Agreement was one entirely removed from the ‘resolute action’ envisaged in 1998.