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Fáilte , Fàilte , and Failt is a word meaning "welcome".
This word appears in the Irish phrase céad míle fáilte (a hundred thousand welcomes) as well as the similar Scottish phrase ceud mìle fàilte and the Manx keead milley failt. It also occurs in the name of Fáilte Ireland and its predecessor organization, Bord Fáilte (Board of Welcome). Fáilte Towers, an RTÉ reality programme broadcast in Ireland in 2008, incorporates this word in its name as well.
The accent above the a is a diacritic known in Irish as the síneadh fada (literally, long stretching, as it lengthens the vowel; often called just the fada in English), and as the sràc (pronounced ) in Scottish Gaelic.
Usage examples of "failte".
Kenny, led them through to what she called the banqueting hall, where another fireplace stood with a carved mantel reading cead mille failte, a hundred thousand welcomes.
When you spend sixty hours or more a week driving around a city as small as Dublin, stopping at the side of the road to pick up complete strangers from all walks of life who collectively constitute the DNA of the city, the Bord Failte bullshit of the city of a thousand welcomes quickly fades away as the X-ray like facility of driving a taxi in Dublin reveals the real psyche and make up of the people that populate it.
A streamer bearing the legends Cead Mile Failte and Mah Ttob Melek Israel Spans the street.