Emergency funding saves Scotland’s Gaelic programme from cuts

Gaelic was once the dominant language in the Outer Hebrides or Western Isles. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian

Scottish ministers have given emergency funding to save a network of Gaelic community workers who faced being laid off because of government cuts.

Gaelic activists, MSPs and community leaders were dismayed after it emerged last month that Bòrd na Gàidhlig (BnG), the body charged with protecting Gaelic, was removing 27 development worker posts across the country.