Malta and the Netherlands are other countries where a large majority also speak English.
In some places in the EU the UK's union jack flag is being replaced with the Irish tricolour on bank ATM's display of language choices, which amuses the Irish.
If you consider the alternative to be monolingual Irish speakers, for sure they're way less than 1%, but I imagine if you group them with monolingual Polish/Portugese/Chinese speakers, you might get up to a whole percent
Malta and the Netherlands are other countries where a large majority also speak English.
In some places in the EU the UK's union jack flag is being replaced with the Irish tricolour on bank ATM's display of language choices, which amuses the Irish.