{"id":23426,"date":"2025-02-18T20:54:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T20:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/communities-minister-gordon-lyons-introduces-bill-in-sign-language\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T20:54:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T20:54:42","slug":"communities-minister-gordon-lyons-introduces-bill-in-sign-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/communities-minister-gordon-lyons-introduces-bill-in-sign-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Communities Minister Gordon Lyons introduces bill in sign language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Communities Minister Gordon Lyons has used sign language in the Stormont Assembly to introduce the second stage of the Sign Language Bill.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The bill recognises and promotes both British Sign Language and Irish Sign Language.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Mr Lyons was addressing members of the deaf community who were sitting in the gallery. <!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/c8j0l0z2v4lo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communities Minister Gordon Lyons has used sign language in the Stormont Assembly to introduce the second stage of the Sign Language Bill. The bill recognises and promotes both British Sign Language and Irish Sign Language. Mr Lyons was addressing members of the deaf community who were sitting in the gallery. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[575,3994,5983,5837,2085,5984,1830,1042],"class_list":["post-23426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-bill","tag-communities","tag-gordon","tag-introduces","tag-language","tag-lyons","tag-minister","tag-sign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23428,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23426\/revisions\/23428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}