Gael-Taca

The group was established in 1987 by Pádraig Ó Cuanacháin who remained their Marketing Director until he died in 2008. The organisation had its government funding suspended in 2020 due to claims from the government that it had shortcomings in governance and financial control and a lack of operational capacity to handle funding. Following this, the organisation gave up its business premises in Cork and acquired emergency funding from the state to clear its accumulated debts, but due the lack of funding it operated primarily with volunteer staff. ==Activities==

Gael-Taca provide a free consultancy service to businesses that want to incorporate the Irish language in their business, including encouraging property developers to choose Irish language names for their new developments, and they answer general Irish language queries from the public in Cork. In 2008, following the death of Pádraig Ó Cuanacháin, Gael-Taca claimed to have supplied the name of over 400 residential areas with Irish-language names on the island of Ireland to property developers and builders up until that year. == Gradam Uí Chuanacháin ==

The annual Gradam Uí Chuanacháin award is named after Ó Cuanacháin and is awarded by Gael-Taca to the business that has, in their view, promoted or used the Irish language the best in Cork in the preceding year. The award started again in 2025 after having been suspended since 2020 during the Covid pandemic. ==See also==