The most gloriously Irish interview of Rio 2016
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- The O'Donovans give their post race thoughts on bathing, cuisine, down time and race strategy in what can be argued as the best interview of Rio 2016. They row pretty well too.
It's just like two lads randomly rocked up one day to give rowing a try and realised they were good at it, so decided to stay.
They're Irish, would you be surprised if that actually was what happened? ahaha
Trisha Mc
Actually wouldn't surprise me.
Jack O Brien chill ouh
its like michael cera and acting
That's generally how we roll in Ireland :-)
Interviewer: "Is it a dream come true?"
_ "I suppose"😂
In Cork they say "I shpose."
Just two guys having fun and others trying to glorify them.
Man that’s what we all say 😂
Translation: "Stop putting words in my mouth."
LOOOOL
What time is the race? Haven't a clue to be honest lol lol brilliant pure Irish
fifimac Around 6minutes if you're an elite rower. And 9to7 if you are not rowing for a national team.
@Colin Wool lol
@Cian MacGana gods i wish the original comments were still here so i could see what you're on about
But don’t believe for one second they didn’t know why time their race was on!!
@@jamesconcannonelectricallt1891I can assure you they definitely didn't. But clearly you just like to think the worst of everyone
"Shteaks and spuds" "we're only shmall boys"
Boyeens! 😂
EPIC lads!!!😅
“I think it’s 11 o’clock tomorrow isn’t it? The final?”
“Couldn’t tell you to be honest.” 😂😂😂😂
That’s alright lads, it’s only an Olympic final’
It’s honestly as if they’re on an all inclusive resort holiday and they’re talking about the final of the shuttle board competition and I love it
And the “you can have steak for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It’s brilliant”
They are two small town guys and it’s like they’ve been put up on an all expenses paid vacation. It’s very sweet, I just love how thrilled they are just to be there.
Ah, l just came for de craic, to be shore!
I think they cared more about the steak lol
What’s your strategy for tomorrow? “Row as fast as we can.” Legend.
Jenson Button had the same answer when asked what his strategy was for a F1 race.
"See that? it's the go faster button, i'm going to press it"
"Close your eyes and pull like a dog" LOL amazing
1:38 close your eyes and just listen. Sounds like rap. Eminem get out
I was about to comment the exact same thing! Ok I’m not crazy.. it sounds like he is really rapping. Fantastic
Really? He was just talking about the race in Amsterdam...
Lily Whelan actually genius
No it doesn't
Lily Whelan it doesn’t quite sound like rap, but there is a sing song nature to the inflection of their accent. I get what you mean about Eminem though.
They won gold in Tokyo 2020(2021)! Congrats lads!
Only one brother ( i.e Paul).won gold in Tokyo. His other brother didn't qualify to accompany him.
@@marymurphy937 ohhh, well that's just sad, I thought it was Gary and Paul.
@@EmVeeBeen it was Paul and Fintan Mc Carthy. Fintan's brother didn't qualify either. Yes it is sad but they might not have won if Gary and Paul were a team. Gary went along as a back up in case he was needed. .
@@marymurphy937 out of curiosity, how did one not qualify but one did if it’s a team thing (not team like basketball or soccer team like two people to do the sport) Do you have to qualify as an individual first
@@foxja1 Each individual can be assessed comparatively against others by swapping about between partners.
P O'D was clearly the fastest, and so it was merely finding the most productive partner. A very challenging task.
Gary understood the nature of that task. If he was to be the "assumed" partner of Paul, then in all likelihood, they would at best have got Silver, and maybe have been fighting for Bronze with the Italians.
All rowers know this score, hard though it can be. Gary has been very sound about being on the wrong side of this decision. He looks far "sweeter" partnering Paul, but Finton gives Ireland a chance to get the Gold medal.
For the record books, it is not relevant who did it, but as long as some combination including at least one O'Donovan does it, the world is momentarily a better place. (For the interviews! :) )
true irish sentence there "i will ya for the craic"
01:50
No idea what he is talking about here. I’m a bit too American for this so could you please explain a little more. By the way this is one of the best things I’ve ever watched
@@tannergreening3331 well the interviewer just asked him if he is competing in another rowing competition, and he basicly said "ya, for fun!"
i read this exactly as i heard it in the video
@@theirishu2ber683 Thank you.
“Whatever happens, happens, and we’ll be happy” is, perhaps, the motto of the Irish Nation. You made the world proud, guys.
"We'll do our besht". Thanks lads, you did us proud x
And again 2021
@@annedonnellan6876 And again 2024! Gary is the first Irish Olympian to medal at three Olympics. Absolute feckin' legend.
@GneasYTC Paul* not Gary but yeah he's insane.
@@NobuNobuSimp Ooops! Yes, it was Paul, not Gary. Thanks.
"A to B as fast as we can you know" HAHAHAH love these lads proud to be Irish
I love the way they're themselves and don't try to sound all posh and proper and say the usual cliche stuff in front of the camera. A pair of genuine, nice lads giving on honest interview :) proud to be Irish
They are playing up to the camera with the most embarrassing Paddy whackery. A pair of pricks.
@@whoneedsposers bruh go outside and stop talkin through yer hole 😂
If you see any other interview with them, you’ll know these are their genuine accents. You’re the arrogant cynical prick...
@@whoneedsposers You probably have one of those fake English sounding RTÉ accents (except rhotic and with soft t's). Or one of the semi-American accents everybody has these days. Idiot.
Just the jibbthey cañ be proud now for years to come
"close yer eyes and pull like a dog" ..aaah, ok, so that's how you win Olympic silver...
I think rowing coaches hate that phrase lol. There's a bit more to it than that!
@@johnkilcullen1051 oh of course, there's the whole food science side of it. What was it they were rushing off to, steak and chips? ..good lads.
@@johnkilcullen1051 Olympic silver medal winning coaches?
@@vonteflon they probably wouldn't be too bothered as their charges would know it's not that simple.
It really is
All those coming from The Graham Norton interview it's at 1:08 thank you!
lollypopsmum thanks
Haha! Thank you!
You’re a hero
Haha... hilarious @lollypopsmum
Lol lol you caught me. Thanks.
Ireland must be a beautiful nation with an ancient, wonderful culture and very nice people.
its not.
It really is (I'm Irish)
Where do u live
I take back what I said if u live in Dublin it isn't and a lot of other places are full of drunk teenagers
+Ecosplit Getshrekt wait we talking north or south side?
People from Boston shouldn't be allowed to celebrate Paddy's Day unless they can understand these two... word for word
And they should stop calling it St.Patty's day too. No self respecting Irish man or woman would ever say that.
@@markfitz1974 as an Irish man I can confirm one of the many names we have for it is St.Pattys day. Dunno where you heard that we dont
@@markfitz1974 ah you meant the spelling off paddy, I thought you meant putting in the St. in a America's defense our pronounciation off DD and TT are the same. Ladder and letter sound the same
Shini fair enough. ☘️
@Martin England it was in reference to the plastic Irish that live out there.
Four years later and still the best Olympics interview ever! 😂🤣🙌
I think the Irish should be given a gold medal for the funniest interviews at the Olympics.
I didn't know Peter Parker was Irish.
I can't unsee it.... Halp
shure I do be throwing out the oul webs like
Goblin you gowl!
@matter_of_fact_its_nine_inches Not the Tom Holland Peter Parker.( you man on the left)
@matter_of_fact_its_nine_inches clown 😄
If you take part in any sport for "the craic" you'll never tire of it.
“Seriously, almost, for a moment” really encapsulates this whole clip
"...Is there a strategy?"
"I dont know. Simple really" 🤣
This is exactly how I imagine Merry and Pippin.
Or Fred and George
Hahahaha
no not at all sure, Merry and Pippen were from the Shire in Middle Earth.
I’m pretty sure they were both high on pipe weed from the Southfarthing...
The Irish Times, in 1980 reporting on the Olympics: "There was excellent news for Irish swimming from the Olympic pool last night. Nobody drowned."
You this much of an a-hole all the time .. or just some of the time ?
I assume they would not have qualified if they couldn't swim?
@@3storiesUp
The Irish (and most Europeans) love to laugh about themselves. I guess most Americans will never understand that.
I quoted Ireland's biggest newspaper, the "Irish Times". So you should call THEM "a-holes"...
@@MarcF.Nielssen Don't mind the sour fools that can't have a laugh. I'm 100% Irish and that was 100% funny. They are probably the same fools that think craic goes in a pipe.
@@bustabloodvessel5327
I really love Irish humour. When I manage to understand what is being said.
From the thumbnail I thought they were just some Irish tourists 😂 and when they started talking it still took me a while to get that they were athletes, they're so chill and relaxed.
Like they were on holiday 😅
Like the man said, ‘mood of the nation’!
They are on holiday! Take an Irish man anywhere sunny no matter the reason they are their , its a fucking holiday! We get all four seasons in the wan day here in Ireland.
They were invited to row at the Head of the Charles. All they had to do was say yes, they said. One of the top teams in the world and they were absolutely chill.
Paul i.e the dark haired fellow, won gold in Tokyo 2021. His other brother didn't qualify to accompany him. Both are very humble , down to earth lads . His mother said if Paul was any more laid back he would be dead. They are exactly as you see them.above. They make me proud to be Irish.
Congratulations, O'Donovan brothers! All around the world Irish people and ALL people are so proud of what you have accomplished for Ireland and for your town of Skibbereen!
"The [Olympic] final's on at 11 o'clock tomorrow...?"
"I couldn't tell ya to be honest with you..."
Brilliant! Love these guys.
Make no mistake these lads are machines
Aye, potato and steak powered apparently.
"Close the eyes and pull like a dog". 😂. Good to have these two messers in Tokyo!
Another gold in 2024 🎉 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🥇 well done lads
Greetings from Washington, D.C. I find accents and dialectics are so fascinating! One can be speaking the SAME language but, be difficult to understand! Thanks so much for sharing this with us. 😊
“a bit of shteEAaak”
“shpuds if ya want em”
“we’re only small byes”
“close the eyes and pull like a dog”
“tis brilliant”
“we’ll do our besht “
I will yeah, for the the crack
Genuine Paddies, not plastics (cough, Saoirse, cough)
How is Saoirse a plastic paddy? She was born in the US but she only lived there for three years with her IRISH parents. I think her father was born in the UK but again to Irish parents who moved back. I can’t understand people making out that she isn’t genuinely Irish. It’s almost spiteful. I know lots of fully Irish people who were born elsewhere because their parents had to emigrate for a while for economic reasons. They are all Irish through and through. And if it’s about her accent, I can’t see anything wrong with that either.
@@Dermot2927 Na she's full Irish.
@@shawndooley7778 craic
Dear Ireland. I'm proud to be on the same planet as you. Hope to see you again some day.
super proud of these guys. I have been looking at their interviews all morning... just hilarious
Interviewer : 'Talk to me about tomorrow, seriously, almost, for a moment, is it dream come true territory...' Love it! ☘️
This really was a great question lol
I suppose
As Irish person where relax and back each other for life , we are small country love 💕 from lreland
I haven’t been able to go back to Ireland since COVID, I really miss it. My family is in Galway and cork. Stay safe and love from America
"We'll do our besht". Hahahaha
_"We're just gonna go as fast as we can an' try an' winnit"_ Love it!
Those accents are the basis of Jamaican patois. It's a joy to hear! Love the Irish 🍀
Actually it's not. Patios is the basis of the Ghanaian Language Twi.
@@juicygossipworld4024 The accent of Patois comes from Ireland, while the words are a mix of Twi, and various other Ghanaian and Gold Coast slang. It is the Irish who taught the Africans in Jamaica how to speak English. Dont even have to take my word for it just look at the person's last name you are replying to and my last name is O'Sullivan
@@Terszel you are correct.
Never heard or thought of that before, but damned if you’re not right!
@@ushoysand Montserrat the accent is irish
1:38 - example of the phonological similarity between the Jamaican accent and certain Irish accents
there were a huge amount of irish bond servants (borderline slaves but not quite) shipped off to the caribbean in the 1600s so perhaps that still influences the jamaican accent today
Yeah i believe Jamaica was 2/3 Irish for a long time after the Spanish exterminated the locals forever... and some Scots which is why even today Jamaicans will call a hat a Tammy etc. I heard most of the Irish lads were taken from Cork so if you do an exaggerated Cork accent and slip into Rasta.. you'll be surprised
@@SamHainScott fascinating stuff. The pronunciation similarities seemed uncanny until I read up about the history, the Irish indentured servants, etc
Wow! I can totally hear it!!
O'Donovan Brothers need to make a weekly show....mystery type. Can't get enough of their personality n spunk!🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
You mean a myshtery type of show like? Twould be fierce mystherious altogether!
A to B as fast as you can go.
Genius, they must have won.
I think the main point is that in order to win a race, you’ll have to be fast. Really fast.
I watch this & the graham Norton video at least every other month, cheers me up no end 😂
Reporter: “How has your life changed in few hours since you won your medal? “
Rowing Brother: “ I dont know yet- i have been sitting in a room trying to pee into a jar like”
bruh I didn't even realize they were speaking English at first
the most accurate title for a video I've ever seen, damn I love the Irish
Well done you've done everyone in cork proud
Well I'm from cork and they're from cork if your from Dublin then u know they did everyone proud in Dublin I'm just saying it because I'm from cork
+Ronan O'Riordan #TeamRepublicIreland #DublinWhereYouAt??!?
Up city
Cork should be the capital
Are they not from County Durham?
Best Olympics interview ever, hands down
a good feed of Brazilian steak and spuds and these boys were fit to bull cows.
fair play to them all the same for winning the auld medal.
They're gas bucks
eh?
Aye sure they're good lads the pair of them
Honest to God at first I thought they were interviewing Irish fans in Rio
These guys genuinely could have a sitcom, best bit of RIO 2016
You can never take the Rebel out of a Corkman. Up the lads sometimes im just dead proud to be Irish and things like this with proper Irishmen make me love Ireland and the way we are even more. They are the definiton of an Irishman
1:05 Special tactics?
Not really. A to B as fast as you can go
😂😂😂😂
And now Paul is an Olympic Gold medallist... shuperb!
Newsflash: *double* Olympic Gold medallist! Mighty altogether!
Love how they look baffled at the interviewer’s bullshit about ‘strategy’.
Lived in Ireland for 2 years and still I need subtitles 😂
brilliant interview, the pair of them are brilliant.
I absolutely love the Irish ☘️👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
you might think differently if you lived here
@@Onlinesully leave then? 😅
@@jimbob2252
thank you for the advise Jim, very thoughtful of you.
@@jimbob2252
thanks for the thoughtful advice Jim.
I spend about 4 months of the year in Ireland, and this works good for me.
Loved this. Notice they didn’t keep saying ‘like’ either. Double bonus.
So true
Or dine tine at the rindabit.
These guys are so genuine
And lots of common sense.
Brilliant.
I am now a sub on a great Irish rowing channel.❤
Truth- I am fascinated by the accent, as it rolls on.
Even the subtitles can't understand them 😂🍀
Thanks for reminding me to switch on the captions.
+Midastouchgamer no bother 👍
+Mark Mc Gloin I'm glad I'm Irish, and talking to other Irish.
+Midastouchgamer Me too 😂🍀
+Midastouchgamer where you from in ireland I'm westmeath 😂🍀🍀🏅 give them a gold
Delighted for them! Even better to see fellow Cork men doing their county and country proud! H'on the O' Donovan brothers!
Wtf TH-cam algorithm??? What in my search history made you decide this was what I want to watch? I'm German and the most Irish TH-cam I've watched is jacksepticeye o.O
I mean, I'm not complaining, love the accent, but I have no clue what they're saying!
I guess they had Germans on their agenda🤣 Im also German with no clue why this is in my recommendations
@@sokyoul it's a conspiracy to get more Germans to Ireland 😱
Lol german here wanting to move to london... well i think TH-cam has other plans for me😂
Turn on the captions.
@@sokyoul Keine sorge Kumpelchen. Mann kann es trotzdem geniessen,und seine fremdesprache kenntnis verbessern.
Every time O’Donovan wins a medal or even competes, I come back to this video! This lad is a living legend and super intelligent.
I kinda feel sad that he lost his smile in the more recent interviews, him and his brother bounced off each other’s quips and made each other laugh. Or maybe he got fed up of the media perceiving him as a clown (‘Gwan, say the funny phrase Paul!’).
Comhghairdeas Paul, tá níos mó tuillte agat 🇮🇪
You'd know these boys are from Cork....think of Cillian Murphy, or Roy Keane....they downplay everything and don't accept compliments well. You couldn't be seen to be having notions about yourself if you're a Corkonian. I love it.
interviewer: whats your strategy for the finals?
*Go Forward and go fast*
What fantastic young fellas they are!!!
I'm enjoying this interview a LOT for somebody who can't understand most of it...
"They've no Kerr Pinks though"🤣🤣🤣
This is a west Cork accent. Various regional accents like this used to be a lot more common but most young people now have (or have been influenced by) the new 'Supraregional' accents. Meaning their accents no longer change much from region to region.
Sadly this happens in every country where there's one part of the country with an overwhelming mass of people (Dublin).
It happened in New Zealand too where all the various accents gave way to a standard Auckland based one, which is now just the 'New Zealand accent'.
You cannot get a job on Irish TV unless you say, dine tine near the rindaboit.
@@wideawake914 Yes Indeed. RTÉ and most of Ireland's main national institutions are based in D4, they have always owned RTÉ and they only hire people who sound like them for the 'important' positions. Therefore almost everyone on the 'national' radio channels have that same posh Dublin drone regardless of where they were born.
It is true, as Bordieu tried to explain, that the upper middle class does everything in it's power to guard the status of it's own dialect.
Go back through the RTÉ archives. You will not find a newsreader who doesn't sound posh. Since the seventies and our joining of the EU they have become less 'British' sounding but it is still the exact same people from the exact same part of the country who hold the influence
There is an add in Ireland for some drink called a new Irish stite. What ever that is.
One thing for sure they put Ireland and rowing on the world stage ,.Brilliant interview ,
“Talk to me seriously, almost, for a moment” 😆 please don’t. Carry on as you are
I swear the guy on the left is an undercover Jamaican
Great lads. Taking the piss out of the po faced sports interview we all know and yawn over. "What does it mean to you"? How do you feel" etc. BS questions with formulaic answers. These lads know its only pulling a boat through water take the piss and they are great.
Very well said!
"seriously, almost, for a moment"... 🤣
After that Interview to RTÉ the Irish Broadcasting company they finished with a phrase translated to English from Irish which reads "our day will come", the two lads were then interviewed by the BBC. As they were going on air they then said " it's the BBC, we better be careful what we say here" pure and utter class. Say what you like on Irish TV. But tread carefully about what you say for the mother BEEB.
Good to see Merry and Pipin are doing well
The Irish have been finding it hard to watch the Olympics? They turned the whole pool green, come on, cheer up.
The Irish Coach: "Listen lads, here's our strategy: row as fast as you can from A to B!" (points intensely at the chart of rowing location)
The Irish team: "Sounds like a plan! We should show up there tomorrow, close our eyes and row like a dog! If only we know what time the race starts..."
😂
I swear for a brief moment they sound Jamaican...
You're not wrong. This part of Ireland heavily influenced the jamaican accent.
@@bobsmith5441 Which part is that sir?
@@bobsmith5441 👍🏻
@@bkl43 Cork, Kerry, Waterford. Hundreds of thousands of irish were sent to the west indies in the 17th century with west Africans arriving thereafter. The sing song melodious accent is very reminiscent of the Jamacian accent, although latter spoken with a slower pace.
@@bobsmith5441 having living in Cork now for more than a year its the first time of me hearing this.
This tops Andy Townsend's interview at the 94 WC, when he said of his new bleached coif that he'd asked for a Valderama and been given a Val Doonican.
Auto Generated subtitles don't know what's going on either.
Pure class. what it really means to be Irish.
Interviewer : seriously now lads
Lads: ......
gotta love the ow'l shteak and shpuds
Loved these two rowers.... Sorry , but I did catch every third word they spoke.😊😊😊.I loved them even more when they were on the Graham Norton show.!!! SO glad you won Silver at the Olympics.
Paul O'Donovan, the brown haired one, just won the gold in Tokyo so🥳
well done lads great job
And this is why i love irish people!!😂😂😂
r u not Irish haha
+A Little Bit Rusty nope im 100% irish its just sooo irish its so classic i love it!!
Yes we r the best!
+Erin Me ye we are a class nationality! Craic agus ceol!🤗😂
#Craicagusceoil👍 #Isuckatirish 😂
smashing lads. congratulations on the silver.
i hve been to skibbereen nice town and nice people believe me ...and the music in the town is pretty good to...fantasic place..
I live in NI newry and I went down to skibberean to buy my dog
ok my friend look after him i am sure you will....
+Matthew Byrne
They don't have any dogs where you live?
rob catalunya so have I
Matthew Byrne XX
The
1:50....love it, the honesty of these lads...
"Shteak and Spuds for breakfast, dinner and supper"....none of your auld pashta for the boys from The West Cork Flying Column...Coming from Wesht Clare, Ireland I can undershtand every word ...their use of the Bearla (English) is to be admired....Up The Rebels..
*Wesht
They actually said "Bit of shteak for breakfast, lunch and dinner with spuds if ya like"
They actually said "Bit of shteak for breakfast, lunch and dinner with spuds if ya like"
What part of Clare? I'm from Lahinch
+Hawkeye Airwolf me too... lovely accents tho!!
Who’s back in 2024 😂
One has a degree in marketing and the other is a doctor🤩
I'm here from a reference on an article.about how Jamaicans gained Irish surnames. As a Canadian born to two Jamaican born parents it's wierd and funny how fluent they sound to me. I guess being used to Jamaican accent helps. I hear the similarity but I always thought parts of britiain has some similiar sounding accents to Jamaicans. Were all one human race ppl. Your geography of your birth place means more then your skin tone. Thank about that. Two Koreans can have a baby born in Cuba and and and a thick Cuban accent depending on sheltered he/she is or isn't.
Iam Dunem i had a West Indian work colleague asking me about their accents. He recognized something familiar about their accents.
Thousands of rish were sent as slaves to the West Indies. That's where the similar accents comes from. I've heard Jamaican accents that I swore were from Cork.
My years of watching British television are paying off: I understand half of what they said.
me too! haha ... love British tv/films!
Julie Rogers - except they’re not British
@@bcent5758 I know Gary and Paul O'Donovan are Irish, therefore the Olympic Silver medal in rowing FOR IRELAND. Thanks for making sure I understand the difference. My point remains: being from the USA, MY access to accents (INCLUDING Irish accents) has been through British television and film. Probably some Irish productions too, but those do not readily come to mind.
I don't understand why you mention British Television when there's an Irish interviewer and 2 Irish ones getting interviewed.
@@adammacdomhnail2014 Irish people and Irish accents show up in British television and film AND living on the west coast of the United States I have ACCESS to British shows. For example, Derry Girls is a British television show. I trust those are authentic Irish accents in Derry Girls?
Steaks and spuds for breakfast, lynch and dinner)))
An bhfuil aon duine eile abalta caint as gealige mar mise
Ayyyy táim ábalta !!
What?
Sea taim abalta
Ní féidir loim
ta mise abalta ciant as gaeilge freisin