My 10-year-old daughter asked if we might go to a shop to get something called a 'baw-tool of wah-taah'. My 10-year-old daughter asked if we might go to a shop to get something called a “baw-tool of wah-taah”. After her 2½ years here, she was actually speaking in a halfway-posh London accent. They feel Irish, are Irish, but just have English accents. The issue arises more with the southeastern accent that sounds standard English to an Irish ear.

Source: The Irish Times November 12, 2025 21:30 UTC