Donegal and Kerry's Gaeltacht connection

It was the Conamara man who got me thinking about it after the second day of a seismic weekend of football at the tail end of last month.
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.

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