I’m sorry but many people in Ireland speak Irish in their homes and on the street among themselves; they don’t learn it in school, they learn it at home the way Americans learn English. (Much of this is because they were denied the language by the Brits for centuries. Almost all road signage is in Gaelic making it difficult for foreigners to navigate roads!) I don’t care about statistics or polls. And what Cherokee has to do with it...
my kids went to school in Ireland ( 1990) and they had to take Gaelic classes.