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29th Nov 2016

EXCLUSIVE: Ronda Rousey does her level best to pronounce Irish names

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Darragh Murphy

She didn’t want to talk about fighting so we did our best to think of something else to talk to Ronda Rousey about.

As part of our conversation with the former UFC women’s bantamweight champion, the subject of Ireland cropped up.

Funny that.

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And when your name is Darragh, the fact that your name is unusual to an American often crops up too.

Rousey, speaking at the EA Sports UFC 2 shoot, gave us her best effort at pronouncing mine and other supposedly difficult Irish names.

She absolutely nails ‘Darragh’ but she struggled with nine others, with ‘Saoirse’ and ‘Caoimhe’ our personal favourites.

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