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David Jennings at Dublin's Irish Film Institute for the premiere of Jump Girls

Jump Girls, directed by Luke McManus
Part two will be shown on TG4 at 9.30pm on Thursday – British viewers can watch it live here or catch-up here

We are less than four minutes in when Ted Walsh does an uncanny impression of Ted Walsh, telling us what he thinks about women in a language only he himself is fully fluent in.

"Women are stronger people than men mentally. Men arselick a bit. Women don't. The real strong women say, 'go f**k yourself'."

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Published on 23 February 2019inFeatures

Last updated 20:52, 22 February 2019

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