Ní thagann ciall roimh aois
Sense does not come before age · Nee hog-an kee-al riv eesh
Ní thagann ciall roimh aois means Sense does not come before age, and is said Nee hog-an kee-al riv eesh.
Word for word
Taken literally it reads Not comes sense before age. Irish often puts a sentence together differently from English, so the literal reading rarely matches the meaning.
How to say it
Say it Nee hog-an kee-al riv eesh, written the way an English speaker would read it.
When you’d say it
Said with patience about the young, and sometimes with less patience about the old.
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