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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Bhí sé i bhfad ní ba éifeachtaí, feictear dom, ná an córas atá inniu ann, má chaitheann tusa seic a chur go háit ar bith inniu, tógfaidh siad trí lá nó ceithre lá ag dul ansin é.
It was much more effective, it seems to me, than the system that exists today; if you have to send a cheque anywhere today, it will take them three or four days to get it there.
Agus tógfaidh sé trí lá eile ansin dhúinn glantar ar an taobh eile.
And it will take us another three days then to clean on the other side.
Bheadh sé briste anseo agat agus rud éigin ceannaithe agat air.
It would be broken here with you and you would have bought something with it.
'Sea, agus muid ag déanamh amach gur fearr don saol.
Yes, and as we are figuring out that it is better for life...
Cineál lach an cinneadh atá muid ag dul agus go bhfuil muid ag imeacht níos aibéalach.
The kind of decision we are making is rash and that we are leaving more hastily.
Ach tá muid tá muide tá muid imithe i bhfostú ón bpáipéar agus tá
But we are, we are, we are stuck from the paper and are.
Tá páipéar níos troime, sílim, ná a shíleanns muid.
Paper is heavier, I think, than we think.