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The first major monolingual Irish dictionary, An Foclóir Nua Gaeilge [The New Irish Dictionary] was launched in December 2025, when an initial tranche of 40,000 senses was published on focloir.ie. The dictionary will be added to incrementally in 2026 and 2027 to bring it to its content target of 80,000 senses. Along with the monolingual dictionary, a new bilingual Irish-English dictionary is also being produced and will be fully published in 2027. The entry frameworks for the new project were created by reversing the New English-Irish Dictionary (NEID) (2013-2017) database. This paper explores the decision to reverse the NEID database, the challenges involved in specifying the task, the resulting Irish-language entry frameworks and their use, the unintended consequences and related challenges, and the solutions found to those challenges.