Ireland holds a unique position within the European Union as it is the only country in the EU whose official language (Irish) is endangered, also within its own borders. This has often been cited as the reason why Ireland has not signed the ECRML – as Irish does not neatly fit into the categories of either regional or minority languages prescribed by the Charter. Ireland has, however, enforced the FCNM – what stands out here is that that Ireland does not recognise Irish Travellers as a national minority, understanding this to be a concept not applicable to their self-identification as an ethnic group of the Irish nation with a distinct heritage, culture and identity. The acknowledgment of the Traveller community as a distinct ethnicity led to its formal recognition in the Dáil [Irish parliament] on March 1, 2017. Ireland regularly conducts national language censuses, with the last one taking place in 2022. From 2016 to 2022, the number of Irish speakers increased by 6% - of these, 623 961 speak Irish daily within and outside the education system. Among those who can speak Irish, one in four (472 887) indicated that they never spoke the language, 55% indicated that they did not speak Irish well, and 42% that they speak it well or very well. For the number of English speakers: only 751,507 (13.8%) people reported speaking a foreign language at home. 57% of those (7.8% overall) reported speaking English very well, 26% (3.6% overall) reported that they speak it well, and 11% (1.5% overall) can speak it passably. That comes up to 99.1% overall, which are approx. 5 390 938 people. There is no official national data on the number of Sign Language users in Ireland; the number of deaf Irish Sign Language (ISL) users is estimated to be around 5 000, while approximately 40 000 people in general communicate in ISL. Ireland is unique in that sign language is gendered – men and women in Ireland have different sign languages due to gender-segregated schooling, although this is less prevalent in younger generations. Ireland is a prime example for the importance of looking beyond historically regional languages to gain a good overview of current language realities and landscapes – the second most spoken language in Ireland after English is, in fact, Polish. Meanwhile, the fastest growing language spoken in the 2022 census was Ukrainian (up 165%), followed by Hindi (154%) and Croatian (137%). Due to LanguageMap.eu’s specific limitations, this is not reflected here, but it (and other immigrant languages) would be important to take into consideration for future databases and maps.