Irish farmer's glorious accent is so strong even Irish people can't understand it
Can you repeat that please?
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There are local accents, and there are local accents.
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.
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Those two farmers are from Mount Brandon in County Kerry.
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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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Mikey Joe O'Shea is clearly destined to be a local hero.
