evidence: There was a sea of red in Belfast today as thousands of people took to the streets demanding an official Irish language act. [...] Earlier this year DUP leader Arlene Foster said her party would never agree to legislation protecting the language claiming more people spoke Polish than Irish in Northern Ireland [...] A mother who is raising her child through Irish told Belfast Live: "Gaeilge is the language we speak together at home, from morning to night, but we can avail of very few public services from the state through Irish.