Watch your house! Here's 8 terms you won't hear outside Irish sporting grounds

‘He’s never a minor, is he?’

IT’S ANOTHER BUSY weekend of sporting action on this damp, little country of ours.

Some 50,000 of you sportomaniacs filled the Aviva Stadium last night while the GAA and rugby action up and down the land will see yet more of us click through turnstiles before work on Monday.

And as the visiting German supporters learned last night, there’s plenty can be lost in translation when in an Irish stadium.

Here’s some of our favourite stock phrases from the terraces; what have we forgotten?

Watch your house! Here's 8 terms you won't hear outside Irish sporting grounds

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'You should see his younger brother with the U-21s'
Watch your house
Bring on Sexton/O'Gara for the love of God
Get rid of it for jaysis sake!
'Up' [my county]
I got in with a man
Plan B! Go to Plan B
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Watch your house! Here's 8 terms you won't hear outside Irish sporting grounds

'You should see his younger brother with the U-21s'

Watch your house

Bring on Sexton/O'Gara for the love of God

Get rid of it for jaysis sake!

'Up' [my county]

I got in with a man

Plan B! Go to Plan B

Hold Me Now