Creole Irish
...now there's a thought!!!

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Bí cinnte de go nglacfaidh triúr le gach aistriúchán a thabharfar.
Be sure to get three in agreement with a translation given.

Actually, it wouldn't be a creole until it becomes the lingua franca. In its present form, it is merely pidgin Irish:

From the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary:

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

For me it's definitely Ó Siadhail, although I would like to change the lay-out somewhat to improve it.

Colloquial Irish is useful too but needs a huge amount of work to improve it as it does have quite an amount of useless stuff in it
Personally I'm only interested in learning from the better native speakers, I mean from those who don't speak 'pidgin', and who don't 'infect' their speech with standard Irish, in the mistaken belief that that is what I want to hear.
I find that I have to continually remind some teachers that I'm more interested in hearing what they say at home with the proverbial 'granny', instead of the stuff that they have picked up in university.

I also notice that some native speakers here refer to the 'correct' way, meaning the standard way, as opposed to the way 'we say it', which is a pity as so far as I'm concerned the correct way is the local dialect, whichever it may be.

This is no different from English, where you’ll often hear someone say “Me and John are going to …”, and then ‘fix’ it because the ‘correct’ form is “John and I are going to …”, or similar things.

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Not a native speaker.

Always wait for at least three people to agree on a translation, especially if it’s for something permanent.

My translations are usually GU (Ulster Irish), unless CO (Standard Orthography) is requested.

The advice from all contributors has been really useful to me - a very recent beginner. I have now worked all the way through Spoken World Irish (which gives a fair over-view of the grammar) and Gaeilge gan Stró [Beginners Level] for conversational basics. Now I want to move on and I'm obviously drawn towards Learning Irish. However I'd like to be 'in touch' with the Munster forms so that I can eventually read some of the Blasket books, which are such great Classics in their English translations. Do I also go for the older Teach Yourself book? All suggestions welcome.

Yes, although Teach Yourself Irish by Dillon/Ó Cróinín is much heavier going even than Learning Irish, it makes a good reference.

Also there are useful links in the Gaelainn na Mumhan - Gaeilge na Mumhan - Munster Irish section of our forum to online resources for Munster Irish, though they may have gravitated down in the list. (Looks like you've already seen those?)

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

Thank you Breandán. I have both courses and I'll let you know how I get on in a month or three; by which time I hope to be confident enough to post some words in acceptable Irish!