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Coding and AI classes in Connacht

What are the best coding and AI classes in Connacht?

Connacht is the west: Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Roscommon and Leitrim, home to 582,891 usually resident people at the 2022 census and to Gaeltacht areas in Galway and Mayo. It has one city, Galway, and five counties we have written about separately, all linked below. Our lessons are the same here as anywhere: taught live over video twice a week at a set hour, in groups of five to ten at one level or one to one, for anybody from six to sixty-seven. Trying the first lesson costs nothing. A group place is then USD 100 a month, and USD 150 buys one to one.

How many people in Connacht speak Irish? The census asks whether you can, and 244,788 people aged three and over said yes, about 43% of everyone that age in the province. It then asks the same people how often they actually speak it. Of those 244,788, 55,826 said never. Another 65,180 speak it every day, but only inside school or college. The number who speak Irish daily outside the education system is 16,966, under 7% of the headline. Every one of those figures is published, every one is accurate, and they describe very different realities. Which one you call the number of Irish speakers is a definition, not a fact, and choosing it silently is how two honest reports reach opposite conclusions.

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Facts last verified 17 September 2026. Teaching is online; no Connacht branch is claimed.

Course picks for the west

Four courses to begin with

Each starts with a free lesson taught by the person who would teach the course, and booking needs nothing but contact details.

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Ages 6 to 10

Scratch Coding for Kids

Scratch projects where a character counts as a player only if it meets a rule the child has to write down.

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Ages 10 to 13

Python and AI for Kids

Python and an early habit of asking what exactly a program is counting.

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Ages 14 to 18

Data Science for Teens

One census question broken into its categories, and a written definition for every total.

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College and adult

Python Automation Course

For adults whose reports depend on a word, like active customer or user, that nobody has defined.

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Browse the course atlas for more than one hundred options and use the coding roadmap to check prerequisites.

The four we are known for

Python, AI, vibe coding and agentic coding

These run underneath everything above. Every one is live and online, placed by ability rather than by age, and the first class is free.

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Vibe codingAges 13 to 17

Vibe Coding for Teens

Python, web and AI projects where the learner still owns the thinking.

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Python and AICollege and adult

Python Automation Course

Automate the work you already do, then let AI carry part of it.

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AI and MLAges 14 to 18

AI and Machine Learning for Teens

Train a model, read what it learned, and be able to say why it is wrong.

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Agentic codingProfessionals

Codex & Claude Code

Run AI coding agents on real work without losing control of the codebase.

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What counts as a speaker

The 244,788 people in Connacht who said they can speak Irish, broken down by how often they do. From table SAP2022T3T2PROV; shares are our arithmetic.

Irish speakers aged 3 and over in Connacht, by how often they speak Irish
How oftenPeopleShare of the 244,788
Daily, only within the education system65,18026.6%
Daily, only outside the education system12,9735.3%
Daily both within and outside the education system3,9931.6%
Weekly, only outside the education system15,9006.5%
Less often, only outside the education system83,28234.0%
Never55,82622.8%
Other combinations and not stated7,6343.1%

Four honest headlines

Irish speakers in Connacht: 244,788. Or 188,962 once those who never speak it are removed. Or 83,626 who speak it daily in any setting. Or 16,966 who speak it daily outside school and college. All four are true, and they differ by a factor of fourteen.

The check

Every category in the table sums to exactly 244,788, the number who said they can speak Irish. That is how you know the breakdown covers the whole group and nobody has been counted twice.

What a learner writes

A definition first, in one sentence, then the number that matches it. The same habit applies to users, customers, members, attendees and every other word that sounds precise and is not.

Why definitions deserve more attention than calculations

Most of the arguments about numbers that reach the news are really arguments about definitions nobody wrote down. How many people use an app depends on whether one login a year counts. How many pupils study a subject depends on whether a single module counts. How many people speak a language depends, as Connacht shows, on whether ability, habit or daily life is the test. Calculating is easy and computers do it for free. Defining what is being counted is the harder, human part, and it is teachable to a twelve year old with a table like this one.

Two notes on the arithmetic, so it can be checked. The 188,962 is 244,788 minus the 55,826 who never speak Irish. The 83,626 adds everyone who speaks it daily in any setting, which is the three daily rows in the table plus 1,480 people in combinations that include daily speaking within education, all published in the same table. The 16,966 adds the two rows for daily speaking outside education. The province is also where Irish ability is most common: about 42.8% of Connacht residents aged three and over say they can speak it, against about 37.7% across the State, by our arithmetic on table SAP2022T3T1PROV.

Our Connacht pages

One city and five counties

Galway has a city council and a county council, and each has its own page; every other Connacht county has one.

Galway

The city at coding classes in Galway, and the county outside it at County Galway, including its Gaeltacht.

Mayo and Sligo

County Mayo, with the second Connacht Gaeltacht, and County Sligo to its north.

Roscommon and Leitrim

County Roscommon in the middle of the province and County Leitrim in the north east.

Local figures, schools, towns and a separate data project live on each of those pages. What belongs here is only what the census publishes for Connacht as one province.

Connacht in figures

The province in the 2022 census

Published province totals from the census small area tables, with our percentages marked as such.

Connacht, April 2022
ItemFigure
Usually resident population582,891
Aged 3 and over571,654, of whom 244,788 say they can speak Irish
Born in Ireland472,955, about 81%
Born in the United Kingdom45,148
Households217,015, of which 164,270 had broadband
Journey to work, school or college under 15 minutes124,460 people

Short journeys

Of Connacht people who stated a journey time, about 38.4% get to work, school or college in under fifteen minutes, against about 32.9% across the State.

Working from home

70,500 of the province's 255,297 working people work from home at least some of the time, about 27.6%.

Two Gaeltacht counties

Of the seven counties the statistics office names as containing Gaeltacht areas, Galway and Mayo are in Connacht.

What short journeys do and do not solve

A short trip to school is a real advantage, and many Connacht families have one. It does not create a computing class where none exists, and across a thinly populated province the learners who want one at a given level are often spread over several counties. An online group brings them together without anyone travelling at all.

Learning ladder

From counting to defining

Ages here are rough; the first lesson settles the level.

Ages 6 to 10

Rules for who counts

Games where the child writes the rule that decides what gets counted, then changes it and watches the total move.

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Ages 11 to 13

Categories that add up

Splitting a total into parts and checking the parts come back to the total.

Python and AI for KidsMaths Through Coding
Ages 14 to 18

Definitions in data

Writing the definition before the query, on real census categories, and defending the choice.

Data Science for TeensPython for Teens
Ages 18 to 67

Metrics at work

Pinning down what active, engaged or retained means before anyone reports on it.

Python Automation CourseData and AI Analytics for Non-Programmers (Excel, Sheets, Power BI)
Coding and AI

Ask how many people speak Irish in Connacht and you will get one number

Almost certainly the largest one, because it is the one quoted most.

A quick answer reaches for the headline, 244,788, and presents it as the number of speakers. Nothing in it mentions that more than a fifth of those people never speak the language, or that daily use outside education is a small fraction of it. The answer is not false. It has made a definitional choice without telling you.

A learner who has broken the census question into its categories asks, before accepting any count, what exactly was counted. That question turns a single confident number into a range of honest ones, and it is the question that separates reading data from repeating it.

Machines will count whatever category they are pointed at. Deciding which category answers the real question is a human skill, and one well worth building now. The longer argument is in why understanding code still matters in 2026.

Delivery

Lessons across the west

From Clifden to Carrick-on-Shannon, the teaching works the same way.

A teacher, in real time

Lessons are taught live, with the learner answering, asking and trying things as they go.

Matched by ability

Five to ten learners at a single level, drawn from across Connacht and other countries.

Regular and fixed

Usually two lessons a week, about eight a month, at a time agreed at the start.

Irish school terms

Planned around Junior Cycle, Transition Year and the Leaving Certificate, including holidays and exams.

Needs at home

A laptop or desktop, working sound and a video-capable connection, tested in the free lesson.

Private when needed

If no group at the right level meets at a sensible hour, lessons are one to one.

For learners in the Gaeltacht

Lessons are taught in English and programming keywords are English in every language, so a pupil from a Gaeltacht school in Conamara or Erris starts on exactly the same footing as anyone else.

Fees

Connacht fees

One price list for all five counties.

First classUSD 0

An opening lesson, taught fully and free, that ends with a level and a recommendation.

Group tuitionUSD 100

Group lessons for a month, about eight, with five to ten learners at one level.

Private tuitionUSD 150

One to one lessons for a month on the same weekly rhythm.

Monthly billing is in US dollars, the single rate for families outside India, so Leitrim and Galway pay alike and there is no euro price to set against it. Nothing is charged before the free lesson agrees a course and a time; the pricing page covers pauses, missed lessons and switching format.

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Reviews

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"Modern Age Coders has been a game-changer for me. I struggled to grasp IT concepts and coding before joining, but their classes transformed everything. I can now confidently write complex programs with ease."

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"One of the most wonderful education centres out there. Education is not limited to school syllabus but focuses on skill development."

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FAQ

Connacht coding class questions

What families in the west ask us first.

How many people live in Connacht?

The 2022 census province tables record 582,891 usually resident people in Connacht, in 217,015 households.

What is the Connacht data project?

Learners take the 244,788 people in Connacht who said they can speak Irish and break them down by how often they actually speak it, finding four honest totals ranging from 244,788 down to 16,966.

Which counties are in Connacht?

Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon and Sligo. We have a page for each, and a separate page for Galway city.

Do you teach children from Gaeltacht schools?

Yes. Lessons are in English and programming keywords are English everywhere, so there is no disadvantage, and Connacht includes Gaeltacht areas in Galway and Mayo.

Is Irish more widely spoken in Connacht than elsewhere?

By ability, yes: about 42.8% of residents aged three and over say they can speak Irish, against about 37.7% across the State, by our arithmetic on the census province table.

When are lessons held?

After school, evenings and weekend mornings. Our teachers are in India, four and a half hours ahead of Ireland in summer and five and a half in winter; the slot is set in the free lesson.

Do you teach AI and data as well as coding?

Yes. Courses range from Scratch for young children to Python, data science and AI for teenagers and adults, and the free lesson is where the right one is chosen.

Is there a Modern Age Coders classroom in Connacht?

No, and we never imply one. Teaching is live over video only, with no premises in Ireland. A learner needs a laptop or desktop, working sound and a steady connection, and the number shown here belongs to India.

What do Connacht coding classes cost?

The first lesson is free. After that a shared place costs USD 100 a month and brings two live lessons a week, about eight monthly, with five to ten learners; one to one on the same schedule is USD 150 a month. Everything is agreed before payment.

How many learners are in a group?

Five to ten, grouped by ability, pace and goal rather than age or address. Where nothing suitable meets at a workable hour, we teach one to one instead.

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Continue to Ulster, for its three counties in the State, Leinster or Munster. Anyone comparing online coding schools can read our comparison, and the Ireland page links to everything else.

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