Donegal and Kerry's Gaeltacht connection
As Donegal burst the Dublin bubble on Sunday evening to secure their place in the All-Ireland final against that Saturday’s winners, Kerry, he turned to me and said “cluiche ceannais idir na fadudas agus na n’fheadars a bheidh anois againn.” It will be a final between the fadudas (pronounced, fa-doo-das) and the n’fheadars (pronounced, nad-dors) now.
To those of you without a grasp of our native tongue, faduda is a Donegal variation of fá dtaobh de, which means ‘about’, ‘around’ or ‘concerning’ a particular thing. So, for example, if a Donegal man says “níl a fhios agam a dhath fá dtaobh de (faduda)” he is telling you that he knows nothing about it.
