Irish
farmer's glorious accent is so
strong even Irish people can't understand it
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There are local accents, and there are
local accents.
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The
Irish farmers in the video below, who featured in a recent RTÉ broadcast about sheep theft, are the perfect example of just how tricky to
understand some dialects can be.
Those two farmers are from Mount Brandon in County Kerry.
We can just about make out what Richie Griffin is saying, but the first guy — Mikey Joe O'Shea — has such a spectacularly
strong accent it's hard to grasp
even a sentence.
Many
Irish people responding to RTÉ's tweet were having just as much trouble.
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