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Why do Irish people say sorry so much?

There was a funny piece in yesterday's Irish Times by Newstalk’s own Seán Moncrieff on why Irish...

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18.06 12 Nov 2026


Why do Irish people say sorry so much?


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18.06 12 Nov 2026


There was a funny piece in yesterday's Irish Times by Newstalk’s own Seán Moncrieff on why Irish people say sorry so much, even when we don’t actually mean it. That is just one of many examples of ‘Irishisms’...

Joining Ciara and Shane to discuss a few more and why we use them is Denise Deegan, screenwriter and author of ‘The Little Book of Irishisms’.


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