The New Europe Gets Newer

The new year brings big changes in the European Union. Romania and Bulgaria join the club, Slovenia’s currency switches from the tolar to the euro, and, along with Romanian and Bulgarian, Irish finally becomes an official language of the EU, the federation’s twenty-third. Herewith, a short Irish phrasebook for citizens of the new New Europe:

Is é an feta seo an ceann is fearr i Sofia!
This feta’s the best in Sofia!

Cé mhéad ar an strudel sin i dTolars?
How much is that strudel in tolars?

Níl, do chuid pitseámaí Ceausescu “íorónta.”
No, your Ceausescu pyjamas are not “ironic.”