Lughaidh wrote:
I always heard a broad one - and in Gaoth Dobhair the difference is clear since slender r is pronounced like a y
where did you hear a slender one?
Mostly Rann na Feirste, but until reading your comment I would have associated it (perhaps wrongly!) with Gaoth Dobhair speakers too, despite the slender 'r' ('y') sound in other cases, dobhair (dowee), máthair (mathee) srl...
Am not an expert though, and it's possible I'm more influenced by reading rather than by the sounds themselves - in Donegal literature, it's nearly always spelt
pioctúir, isn't it? Don't think I've ever seen
pioctúr... although I'll try to look out a few examples to check that.
Also, for me,
tugann (bheir) sé i mo chloigeann é seems more common to Donegal than
cuireann sé i gcuimhne domh é, even if you hear both...