Fáilte


Fáilte, Fàilte, and Failt is a word meaning "welcome".
This word appears in the Irish phrase 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. 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, and as the stràc in Scottish Gaelic.