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THERE’S A DIFFERENT crowd than normal training at Na Fianna GAA Club in Glasnevin.
Contestants from China’s biggest reality TV show, The Exploration of The World, have decamped to Dublin to learn traditional Irish skills, including football, hurling, and even a bit of Irish dancing.
The programme is watched by as many as 500 million people.
Georgina Caraher from Experience Gaelic Games, who is facilitating the training of the celebrity contestants, said that the programme was interested in doing a segment on Irish culture and, through Failte Ireland, got in touch with her organisation.
“They’re very taken with how different and how unique hurling is,” she told RTÉ’s News at One, although said they were having mixed success with actually striking the sliotar.
She added that the group is interested in how learning how important GAA clubs are to Irish communities.
Caracher said the celebrities will be in Ireland for the next week, taking part in a range of activities culminating in a live show on Friday.
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The Chinese – a great bunch of lads
Well done
Pmsl… Ted comments always roll off the tongue here on the journal but that has to be the most appropriate use of a ted quote yet. Well done!
Rehashing old tv quotes from cancelled tv shows is the height of humour.
The timing of such quotes is the height of humour,
And the unnecessary bitchiness on a funny and innocent quip is the height of ignorance.
An tír is mó ar domhan agus an an spórt is fearr ar domhan. Craobh na Síne le teacht -íosfaidh siad na Cait!
Father Ted was never cancelled either.
Big pick
U wot m8?
Yer a bit of a big ole dope Damian :-)
Damien, oasis or blur?
Terence your joke or someone elses?
I can hear Michael O’Muircheartaigh already.
“Lu wins the breaking ball, passes it out to Chow who drills it down to Mein on the full forward line who is tackled and wins the free off Jackie Tyrrell. Lu Chow Mein – I ordered that in my local Chinese in Maynooth last night – and it too went down as easy as Mein there”
I hear you’re a racist now father….
It’s not the Chinese he’s after, it’s the Greeks!
Its the best game in the world. My dad won a dublin championship medal in the late 60s and im still so proud
Michael Rice and Lee Chin gonna pop in?
Lookit I know that was a bit of a controversial comment. But in fairness I did laugh at it. Have a thumbs up
+1 Mr. Hayes!!!!
I really like this….wonder if we’ll ever get to see the show with subtitles…the Chinese have a great sense of humour just like us…they’ll be laughing their heads off at each other trying to hit that sliotar.
Great for tourism.
Anyone know where we can get a link to that show! :)
You have very clearly never seen Chinese TV. It’s all recycled clichéd trash with zero artistic value. It’s all about making money. Not just for the channel, for everyone involved.
Not that they there aren’t funny people in China, just you won’t see them on TV, like Jia Ling. Who you’ll only ever see on a (very funny, admittedly) Wrigley’s ad.
Chinese TV humor is total slapstick. I think we’re a little ahead of that….
500 million people! Brilliant publicity for the sport.
You’re playing Sino hurling now, lads.
Is it true the producer of the show is Mr Fun Hur Ling ?!
The fact that people like you still exist is worrying to a lot of people.
Hoo Lee Fuke
What’s the craic with the black hurlies?
Can you imagine the deforestation of Ash trees should it catch on in China? I might plant a few :-)
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