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10th Mar 2015

Video: Munster Rugby’s foreign players describe teammates as Gaeilge, sound very Klingon

Fair play to the lads for giving it a whirl

Patrick McCarry

The lads have done better than half of the nation, we reckon.

13 or 14 years of school [depending on whether or not you ever tried out Transition Year] and many of us struggle to string more than six Irish words together.

Munster Rugby had the novel idea of getting some of their foreign players – Eusebio Ginzau, Andrew Smith and CJ Stander – to speak a cúpla focal for a competition they are running ahead of St Patrick’s Day.

Each player has to describe a teammate in Irish. From our first viewing, we have figured out the players are from Cork, Tipperary and Limerick.

After that… good luck.

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