Turas Siar 375 - Pádraic Ó Gionnáin as Cill Ghallagáin, ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis, ag cur síos ar chruinniú mór feilméaraí caorach i gCaisleán an Bharraigh. Máirtín Mac Donnchadha, RnaG, a léirigh an clár.

Cén freagra, cén freagra a thug tú air sin?

What answer, what answer did you give to that?

Sea, an conchutar anois.

Yes, exactly now..

By dad, a dúirt mé, bé an rud a bheith feedáilte isteach sa gcomputer a mhothaigh mise i gcónaí agus mé acu amach as.

By dad, I said, it’s the thing of being fed into the computer that I always felt when I was coming out of them.

Chonaic tú na buachaillí seo, a Mháirtín, tá siad sparkáilte ag tosú.

You saw these boys, Máirtín, they are sparked up starting..

Agus bhuel, is maith iad do fhreagra.

And well, your answers are good.

Agus Gaeilge a bhí mise a chaint ní raibh éinne eile sa rún sin an oíche sin abair sé le focal Gaeilge ach mise.

And it was Irish I was speaking; there was no one else in that room that night who said a word of Irish except me.

Sea

Yes.

Mháirtín

Martin.

'Sea.

Yes..

Tá fianaise agam leis.

I have evidence for it.

Ach tá tá an ceart níl a fhios agam cén t-eolas atá agat ar ar an ríomhaire nó ar an gcomputer, a Phádraic, ach tá an ceart agat. Is é an rud a chuirfeas a chuirtear isteach ann a thiocfas amach as.

But yes, you are right, I don't know what knowledge you have about the computer or about computers, Pádraic, but you are right. What is put into it is what will come out of it.

Ní thiocfaidh tada.

Nothing will come..

Agus ní thiocfaidh tada amach as ach an rud a chuirfeas tú isteach ann.

And nothing will come out of it except what you put into it.

'Sin é an rud a mhothaigh mise ach cé a chuir isteach mé tar éis ceithre bliana a bheith caite acu leis?

That is what I felt but who would take me in after they had spent four years with them?

Sea

Yes.