The Irish verb "praise" is used in a lot of situations where English speakers might choose a different word like "encourage" "congratulate" "admire" or "recommend." For example, the old proverb:

Mol an óige agus tiochfaidh siad = Praise the young and they will come (Encourage the young and they will succeed)

I'm pretty sure it's "agus tiocfaidh sí". As indicated by the "an" it is referencing the feminine word "óige".

These answers are great. Thank you.

Also: I specialize in tangents. It requires some discipline to stay on the topic of a thread, but I am trying to follow forum rules.

In a grammar exercise I am doing, I was asked to fill in the blanks in the following sentence:

Ta _____ níos sine ná _____. (He is older than she is, with "he" and "she" being the emphatic forms.)

I filled in the blanks with seisean and sise. The answer key says seisean and ise.

What do you say? This seems to me as though it may be about a comparable issue in English, which is, do you say "He is older than she [is]" or "he is older than her"? Could you imagine people speaking Irish saying either version, with the subject form OR the object form for the feminine pronoun? Or does it have to be one way, and if so, which way?

I would like to add that this particular grammar exercise was not properly proofread and contained multiple errors, so I do not have confidence in the answer key--hence my question here.

Tá seisean níos sine ná ise is correct.

Tá requires the subject pronoun. ná takes an object. The English argument for "than she" doesn't apply to the Irish. Hence it will always be ná é/í/eisean/ise in Irish, never ná sé/sí/seisean/sise*