Turas Siar 393 - Pádhraic S. Ó Murchú as an gCartúr agus Máirtín Mac Donnchadha, RnaG: an chaoi a gcuirtí airgead abhaile san am fadó.
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Fuair muid wire uaidh agus níor tháinig aon wire uaidh go fóill.
We got a wire from him and no wire has come from him yet.
Agus dhá dtagadh wire, cuir i gcás, an ndéantaí idirdhealú idir é sin agus an teileagram a thiocfadh le b'fhéidir drochscéala, cuir i gcás, má tháinig wire ar chiallaigh sé sin gur airgead a bhí i gcónaí ann nó an dtiocfadh wire?
And if a wire came, for example, was there a distinction made between that and the telegram that might come with perhaps bad news, for example, if a wire came did it always mean that it was money or could a wire come?
Ba in é, b'fhéidir, an tuiscint a bhí acu féin.
That was, perhaps, the understanding they themselves had.
Nuair a dabair fear an phosta go raibh telegram a dhéanamh.
When the postman said that there was a telegram to be made...
Bhfuil fhios agat bhíodh bhíodh cuid de
Do you know some of it used to be.
Bhíodh cuid de sheanmhuintir fosta.
Some of the old people used to as well..
Vet acu an teip, mar a deir siad.
Failure is their bet, as they say..