Irish Slang Phrases

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Disreputable type prone to bad deeds.

Two paddies were working for the city public works department. One would dig a hole and the other would follow behind him and fill the hole in. They worked up one side of the street, then down the other, then moved on to the next street, working furiously all day without rest, one man digging a hole, the other filling it in again.

An onlooker was amazed at their hard work, but couldn't understand what they were doing.

So he asked the hole digger, "I'm impressed by the effort you two are putting in to your work, but I don't get it - why do you dig a hole, only to have your partner follow behind and fill it up again?"

The hole digger wiped his brow and sighed, "Well, I suppose it probably looks odd because we're normally a three-person team. But today the lad who plants the trees called in sick.'"

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A reliable source.
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How is things going?
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Said at the end of a story

how you say hello in irish

this is not technically slang.

you response by saying Dia's Muire dhuit.

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yet another term meaning eejit but describing a person of not much use. e.g. "that useless sooskin couldn't pour shit from a shoe if the instructions were on the heel"
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A sneaky person
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Foul name for a liar
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