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Video: Munster Rugby’s foreign players describe teammates as Gaeilge, sound very Klingon

Published 10:57 10 Mar 2015 GMT

Updated 11:00 10 Mar 2015 GMT

Patrick McCarry
Video: Munster Rugby’s foreign players describe teammates as Gaeilge, sound very Klingon

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The lads have done better than half of the nation, we reckon.

13 or 14 years of school [depending on whether or not you ever tried out Transition Year] and many of us struggle to string more than six Irish words together. Munster Rugby had the novel idea of getting some of their foreign players - Eusebio Ginzau, Andrew Smith and CJ Stander - to speak a cúpla focal for a competition they are running ahead of St Patrick's Day. Each player has to describe a teammate in Irish. From our first viewing, we have figured out the players are from Cork, Tipperary and Limerick. After that... good luck.

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Video: Munster Rugby's foreign players describe teammates as Gaeilge, sound very Klingon