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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent

Former rugby star’s Irish-accented French team talk hailed as ‘absolutely glorious’

French may be the language of Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Voltaire, but sometimes it takes a rugby player from Cork to inject extra oomph.

Ronan O’Gara, a former Ireland international who coaches the French club La Rochelle, has lit up the internet with a pep talk to his team that seamlessly blended French with English swearing, graced with a Cork accent.

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