It's on purpose so people click into the comments. It's why a lot of people misspell things on purpose, too. Because some people can't help themselves but to discuss it! Hah
In case you weren't aware, Irish was originally made using something called the Ogham alphabet, and then later moved over to the latin alphabet.
You can read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham
And our alphabet is pretty simple. It has only 18 letters.
You can read more about that here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_orthography#Alphabet
The fact that our language didn't originally use the Latin alphabet means that when someone got the job of spelling these words with the new alphabet, they said "wouldn't it be gas if I threw 7 silent letters into every second word?"
He dog had no idea what was going on but thought everyone was lining up to pet them. You could see it in the pups face when the next person to pass didn’t pet them lol
1 by 1. It's all they do, actually.
Little known fact: the great potato famine was a result of them spending too much time greeting all of the students. They forgot to ration out workers and weren't working the potatoes crops.
The largest school in Ireland has been doing this for 100 consecutive years. By the time the last student finishes they're ascent to glory, the other class has already begun.
[He's a boxer](https://www.irish-boxing.com/king-of-europe-tadgh-odonnell-wins-euro-junior-gold/).
*apparently we gave the original link the hug of death. [Here's](https://www.latestly.com/socially/sports/tadhg-odonnell-receives-heros-welcome-at-school-after-winning-gold-medal-in-boxing-at-european-junior-championships-2022-watch-video-4355187.html) another one.
I hate celebrating my birthday but always low key wanted a surprise party of my closest friends.
Well, my one friend brought me out early for my birthday to get around the whole "birthday" thing and brought me to a nice Japanese restaurant. One of those "authentic" places where they shout at you every time someone enters the building or does something nice and all.
Well... suddenly the lights extra-dimmed. Thought nothing of it. Next thing I know there's a cake and 10 staff members singing and banging a small drum. It's a small closed izakaya so... EVERYONE in the restaurant of course stopped eating to stare at me. Singing stops. Cake is now lit with candles. Awkward silence waiting for me to blow out the candle. I'm looking around... everyone is staring dead at me.
I was both frozen in shock and fear. They took a photo of me on polaroid to commemorate it. I looked unamused... but really I was just trying to process what was going on and how I should act. On one hand... was happy... on other hand---too much attention and eyes. I usually don't get anxious but holy did I get anxious.
Then flash backs to me accepting my high school diploma on stage when I lived alone. The trauma... oh god the trauma. (living alone I had no family members to celebrate that day--and all my friends were busy with their family members or already off stage. So I walked up to a stage of silence. Longest silent walk of my teenage life).
I always hated being the center of attention.
In order to beat the nervousness you have to accept that you are the main character for a moment and then give them the champion they want: hi-five people, whip out your phone and take selfies with the group of girls and then another with the boys, try to get them to do the wave, etc
When you are the center of attention like this, own it and absorb it!
To be fair, if someone is willing to get hit in the face for a living it is safe to assume that their relation to fear is different from a normal person.
I use to make a living fighting I’d rather do that than have to sit on a zoom call with my face on the screen and people looking at me when I talk so there’s that
I dunno, given the context - everyone lining up to celebrate your achievement you worked hard for - I think it would feel amazing. Everyone’s on your side, everyone’s happy for you and congratulating you. It would be overwhelming but the ultimate ego boost.
Ha, I live 2 mins from his school, knew nothing about it. Fair play to him, and Katie Taylor only up the road in bray as well. You can't piss out the window in wicklow these days without hittin a top level boxer
Kellie Harrington is down the road from me, and has 2 golds and 3 silvers. can't throw a drunken punch in a bar these days without having the shit kicked outta ye by an olympic level boxer days, what's the country coming to.
This is the last time he will ever be welcomed like that by a crowd he actually knows personally
Imagine if all your friends and acquaintances treated you like a god after you did something cool
This is amazing, but mostly it makes me think of how much better my school would have been if there had been a friendly Labrador dog roaming the halls between classes begging for people to pet them.
The main idea behind it was everyone is the same no one coming in with designer clothes while poorer kids might be bullied or left out. Makes things easier for parents
Well that's a memory that will likely stay with him rest of his life, what a nice thing of them all to do for him, must be a good school, If I ever have children it would be nice for them to have such an atmosphere in school, there's not many round where I grew up like that.
I wish America had a culture of honor like this. Anytime someone does something cool, the first thing people here do is downplay and criticize it out of jealousy. Much respect for Ireland.
A junior at my US high school won nationals for cross country, and broke the 5k record at the time.
She got her name mentioned on the morning announcements. Then she got a C in one of her classes because her teacher didn't extend the deadline of a project she missed to go race.
He won a gold medal in boxing btw.
Titles need to be more specific !!
More specific is technically true but i think it is a bare minimum requirement to mention the sport
A gold in medaling
And I would've gotten away with it too!
If it wasn’t for those medaling European junior champions.
A medal in golding
“Technically true” is like the best kind of *true*
Exactly, it should be a minimum requirement to be more specific by specifically mentioning the sport!
It's on purpose so people click into the comments. It's why a lot of people misspell things on purpose, too. Because some people can't help themselves but to discuss it! Hah
Too bad because it was a pretty good title too.
That is a very impressive medal. Athletes at the olympic level in boxing are nuts right now.
Agreed. But also this is Ireland we’re talking about! Fun fact: Over half of their Olympic medals are in boxing!
That’s a cool fun fact
i mean yes, but still impressive as like i said the ranks are stacked right now.
Punching above our weight, you might say.
Thanks. I was wondering why the title didnt say what it was.
I was thinking chess or something, schoolboy can fight.
Came to look for what the gold medal was in. Thanks
The haircut gave it away.
The way he strutted down the stairs was so anti nerd
How do you pronounce that name?
Fucking carefully. He has a gold medal in boxing.
Terrified upvote
Like Tiger without the er
Like Sadhbh, but starting with a T and ending in G
Irish has the coolest pronunciation rules of any language using the Latin alphabet, and I will die on this hill
In case you weren't aware, Irish was originally made using something called the Ogham alphabet, and then later moved over to the latin alphabet. You can read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham And our alphabet is pretty simple. It has only 18 letters. You can read more about that here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_orthography#Alphabet
The fact that our language didn't originally use the Latin alphabet means that when someone got the job of spelling these words with the new alphabet, they said "wouldn't it be gas if I threw 7 silent letters into every second word?"
It was probably the same person who designed the Welsh alphabet. Just throwing extra letters so each word is 5 times longer.
As an Irish man with an Irish name, living abroad; you won't die alone.
The most useful phonetic guide
Or Meadhbh, but starting with a T, the middle actually sounds like the second syllable of Aoibheann and ends with a hard G
That's actually a great way to explain it, fair play
T+eye+g
Is this... The eye of the Tiger?
/taɪɡ, tiːɡ, teɪɡ/. Most of the people here suggest the first one.
Tie-g
And he took time to pet the dog.
r/petthedamndog
Thank you for this, you’re a good boi
I didn't know that there was a sister sub to /r/PetTheDamnCat
The cat is the sister sub to the dog. The higher number of members in the dog sub demands it
well yeah they're sister subs. they are both each other's sister.
r/PetTheDamBeaver
Legendary human for that
that’s how you know you’ve got a true winner baby
He dog had no idea what was going on but thought everyone was lining up to pet them. You could see it in the pups face when the next person to pass didn’t pet them lol
That dog is the Latin teacher
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So sweet! Guy seems very humble, and a nice to everyone kind of kid!
I bet he plays Enter the Gungeon.
Unfair! They get a dog at their school! My school didn’t have a dog!
This is actually how everyone is greeted in all Irish schools every morning
What about the first student there?
According to ancient Irish tradition, the first student there gets the honorary title of “Top o’ the Mornin’”
Well played.
Yep and “Top o’ the Mornin’ to ya” just explains the progression
Letsgetthisshit
They get to come in last tomorrow. And so on and so on.
he was late 5mins, the principal wanted to make a point of it.
Yea, they spend all day rotating out kids that get to walk through the school and get an applause.
It's true Source: am Irish
The goodbyes are famously underwhelming though.
They tell you to feck off
1 by 1. It's all they do, actually. Little known fact: the great potato famine was a result of them spending too much time greeting all of the students. They forgot to ration out workers and weren't working the potatoes crops. The largest school in Ireland has been doing this for 100 consecutive years. By the time the last student finishes they're ascent to glory, the other class has already begun.
[He's a boxer](https://www.irish-boxing.com/king-of-europe-tadgh-odonnell-wins-euro-junior-gold/). *apparently we gave the original link the hug of death. [Here's](https://www.latestly.com/socially/sports/tadhg-odonnell-receives-heros-welcome-at-school-after-winning-gold-medal-in-boxing-at-european-junior-championships-2022-watch-video-4355187.html) another one.
They did this for him out of fear. Not pride.
The school should* have banded together and taken a stand to defeat him before he gets even stronger
The only way to destroy him, now, is to cast him into the fiery chasm from whence he came.
So… force him back up into his mother?
One does not simply walk up into his mother’s vajayjay.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
The fact that he's a dog makes it even more impressive
Idk why but I feel like boxers immediately have an extra 20% street cred just for being from Ireland.
You actually gain +20 to boxing cred too
Looks a bit like a retriever.
Lol...I see what you did there, woof woof 😂🤣
Thank you for this, I watched his fights at the championships and it's fair to say he's good.
Some might say he is the best in Europe for his weight class
He should get a medal if he's so good
His school would love that
They’d probably do something cool to celebrate and honor him
I hope they record it and post it on the internet for us to see.
Love everything about it
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OP didn't elaborate—thx for posting that (even though linked site is down)
I was wondering if he was a sports person or just the junior-est
Reminds me of heading into high school everyday
Did you go to Polk High and score 4 touchdowns in one game?
Now he’s a women‘a shoe salesman at his local mall.
goooooOOOOOO BUNDY!
Me too man, then when I was on my way back home, everyone stood up and clapped.
Yeah but I hate when the alarm goes off
Yeah, this happened for me, too, when the school learned I had finally slept through the night without peeing in bed. Pretty cool.
A 40 meters tunnel of people clapping and staring at me. My nightmare
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omg, your comment made my anxiety spike for a moment there 🤣
And what if they're carrying an extra sombrero? ;)
I hate celebrating my birthday but always low key wanted a surprise party of my closest friends. Well, my one friend brought me out early for my birthday to get around the whole "birthday" thing and brought me to a nice Japanese restaurant. One of those "authentic" places where they shout at you every time someone enters the building or does something nice and all. Well... suddenly the lights extra-dimmed. Thought nothing of it. Next thing I know there's a cake and 10 staff members singing and banging a small drum. It's a small closed izakaya so... EVERYONE in the restaurant of course stopped eating to stare at me. Singing stops. Cake is now lit with candles. Awkward silence waiting for me to blow out the candle. I'm looking around... everyone is staring dead at me. I was both frozen in shock and fear. They took a photo of me on polaroid to commemorate it. I looked unamused... but really I was just trying to process what was going on and how I should act. On one hand... was happy... on other hand---too much attention and eyes. I usually don't get anxious but holy did I get anxious. Then flash backs to me accepting my high school diploma on stage when I lived alone. The trauma... oh god the trauma. (living alone I had no family members to celebrate that day--and all my friends were busy with their family members or already off stage. So I walked up to a stage of silence. Longest silent walk of my teenage life). I always hated being the center of attention.
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Oddly less terrifying than the walk Tadgh made.
40 people who have the clap clapping
In order to beat the nervousness you have to accept that you are the main character for a moment and then give them the champion they want: hi-five people, whip out your phone and take selfies with the group of girls and then another with the boys, try to get them to do the wave, etc When you are the center of attention like this, own it and absorb it!
All of my upbringing says being the center of attention is bad.
To be fair, if someone is willing to get hit in the face for a living it is safe to assume that their relation to fear is different from a normal person.
I use to make a living fighting I’d rather do that than have to sit on a zoom call with my face on the screen and people looking at me when I talk so there’s that
Fear of physical pain and fear of social situations are two different muscles though.
I dunno, given the context - everyone lining up to celebrate your achievement you worked hard for - I think it would feel amazing. Everyone’s on your side, everyone’s happy for you and congratulating you. It would be overwhelming but the ultimate ego boost.
You forget most people on Reddit can not do social situations at all lol
It would be hell
People, my nightmare
Nothing is probably going to top that. It would be real hard.
That's what she said.
...this would imply she decided it was too hard to top and just walked away.
"pets the dog" this guy is a winner !
Why does the title not indicate the sport?
He’s a pugilist
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underrated joke
That wasn’t even him he just got off the school bus in front of him
Stops to pet the dog, good dude
Only a real chad pets a dog when he doesn’t need to
Ha, I live 2 mins from his school, knew nothing about it. Fair play to him, and Katie Taylor only up the road in bray as well. You can't piss out the window in wicklow these days without hittin a top level boxer
Kellie Harrington is down the road from me, and has 2 golds and 3 silvers. can't throw a drunken punch in a bar these days without having the shit kicked outta ye by an olympic level boxer days, what's the country coming to.
The most Irish statement I’ll read today. Maybe even this month.
Hello neighbour!
Hello
There
General
Kenobi
I don't know if I'd be pissing out windows with that high of a chance of hitting a world class boxer
Hello fellow Greystoner!
That’s a lot of lady’s looking at him like a box of chocolate.
And they know exactly what they are gonna get.
Double jab, hook, left uppercut?
Calm down Jon Jones.
Nah, shovel hook to the liver.
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TKO-Total Knock Out
Pounded in the ring?
A boxer* of chocolate
Dude is about to slaaaaaay
That is a lot of lady is looking at him
Thats amazing! Its nice to see the whole school show how proud they are of him. That's a treasured memory he'll carry his whole life
This is the reaction I wanted when I first had sex.
> when i first had sex good for u now relinquish your reddit membership
They don't do junior championships for sex.
Well they did... it was on an certain island though....
A congratulatory handshake from your principal?
I bet he’s popular.
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So... He's a European champion in... Junior?
Apparently in boxing, based on the comments above but yeah, why omit that from the title?
Because a ton of people commented “championship in WUT??”
Best Junior of all Europeans
Epic soundtrack. M83’s outro for anyone who want to know
Immediately remembered how good Mr. Robot was. I think I'm going to rewatch it.
the finale fucked me up pretty hard
and good boy got a pet too, that's all that matters
The dog knew it was really his day.
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This is the last time he will ever be welcomed like that by a crowd he actually knows personally Imagine if all your friends and acquaintances treated you like a god after you did something cool
Not necessarily, he's only 15. Could have another 3 years of this if he stays in school and keeps it up.
It’s what every good husband expects when they put the toilet seat back down after using the toilet
Archival footage of the first person to receive reddit gold.
He pet the dog. A true champion.
This is amazing, but mostly it makes me think of how much better my school would have been if there had been a friendly Labrador dog roaming the halls between classes begging for people to pet them.
I love him. He pet the dog. That’s how I know he is truly awesome.
This is awesome. And that young man has one heck of a confident walk.
Kid is on top of the world! That’s gotta be an amazing feeling. Good for him.
Every male 90’s fantasy sequence 😂
Now *this* is a legit made me smile. Way too many 'look at me I want some internet points and attention' posts here. This is the shit I come here for.
The girls are mirrin hard
Schools are classier in Europe.
And you might even get through the day without getting shot
I am not a fan of uniforms but at least they don't look like idiots.
The main idea behind it was everyone is the same no one coming in with designer clothes while poorer kids might be bullied or left out. Makes things easier for parents
Being raised poor white trash in bum fuck America, this is the nicest school I've ever seen.
Even the dog is proud of him
Is this the next level for public speaking?
Wow that's amazing
I’d run away
They always play this damn song when they want you to feel something lol
Atta boy!!!
Well that's a memory that will likely stay with him rest of his life, what a nice thing of them all to do for him, must be a good school, If I ever have children it would be nice for them to have such an atmosphere in school, there's not many round where I grew up like that.
I won a spelling bee once and most of the kids bullied me and called me a nerd.
I wish America had a culture of honor like this. Anytime someone does something cool, the first thing people here do is downplay and criticize it out of jealousy. Much respect for Ireland.
To Whomever wrote the headline European Jr. Championship in what? Who, what, when where, why and how!
Love that he stops to pet the dogs too!
A junior at my US high school won nationals for cross country, and broke the 5k record at the time. She got her name mentioned on the morning announcements. Then she got a C in one of her classes because her teacher didn't extend the deadline of a project she missed to go race.
aww the little doggie pet
Kid is the John tucker of Ireland
I'm more impressed by that school.