Wrongly pronounced GAA Names by RTE commentators

Sham157 wrote: the_walls wrote: Green Devil wrote: Just listen to David Brady or James Nallen speak and how they pronounce names in that ultra bog man accent Any chance you could characterise what constitutes a bog man accent? By virtue of it coming from the west perhaps? You are fully entitled to your little smiley face, you clearly dont like the west of Ireland accent and that is purely a subjective opinion that you are more than entitled to. However, I would like to know what makes a lad from from Carlow/Laois/Tipperary think it is acceptable to throw stones inside the old glass house as regards the whole "bog man" thing. Aren't the best bogs from that part of the country? thinking the same walls. GIve me your dulcet western tone over the sound of banjo country anyday

the_walls wrote: Green Devil wrote: Just listen to David Brady or James Nallen speak and how they pronounce names in that ultra bog man accent Any chance you could characterise what constitutes a bog man accent? By virtue of it coming from the west perhaps? You are fully entitled to your little smiley face, you clearly dont like the west of Ireland accent and that is purely a subjective opinion that you are more than entitled to. However, I would like to know what makes a lad from from Carlow/Laois/Tipperary think it is acceptable to throw stones inside the old glass house as regards the whole "bog man" thing. Aren't the best bogs from that part of the country?

My accent is mild and has a very low tone, the Western accent is rugged and very deep for the most part. It basically has a rough and ready sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk_kZspsp1o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJNBPn2-3Kc

Also, I'm not from Tipperary, never once claimed to be either? There's f**k all bogs in Carlow btw

Edited by Green Devil - 15 Aug 2015 at 8:52pm

colemanY2K wrote: nice edit btw...i was just about to post this: http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/travel/go-walk-abbeyleix-bog-loop-co-laois-1.1959278

Laois has nowhere near as much bog land per square mile than even the likes of Offaly has which is county pretty similar in size to Laois.

Land from Portlaoise down to my village on the Carlow border has probably the best farming land in the country.

I'm from Laois and work in Kilkenny and the amount of different pronunciations is unreal considering there's only a few miles between me and most of the lads I work with.
Walsh is pronounced Welsh by everyone
Phelan is whaylan
O'Neills are Nails
Skehan is Skayan
Healy is Hayley
And it's not just all the "ee" sounds are pronounced "ay" because O'Dea is still O'Dea and Deegan is Deegan.
In north Laois where my oul lad is from, Matthews is Mattis.
Dowling is Doolin with some of the real mountain men! I dunno, the joys of being a bogger isn't it walls/GD?!

corkery wrote: Today it was Maher and Maar.

Sure that's the right way to say Maher.