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Ag breith cnuasach trá go hInse.
Carrying beach wrack to Inch.
Explanation:
English "Carrying coals to Newcastle".
Beach wrack is various foodstuffs gathered on the strand, or items coming ashore from ships at sea. Inch is a seven-mile strand in County Kerry, to which it would be pointless to carry wrack.
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