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I'm sure I was taught it was an acceptable, informal way of saying "No problem".
and I'm sure I was taught what I said in my message
When you look at other contexts it's clear that "ar bith" means "any":
"thig leat rud ar bith a dhéanamh"
"íosfaidh mé rud ar bith a bhéarfas tú domh"
and
"char úrt sé rud ar bith"... etc etc
it has not negative meaning by itself, it only has when there's a negation before

, just like "any" in English
And moreover, as far as Ulster Irish is concerned, the word "fadhb" doesn't even exist

, it has come because of school Irish, John Ghráinne says it in his last book if I remember well, and I couldn't find any occurrence of that word in the Ulster literature in Tobar na Gaedhilge. John Ghráinne said what is the "real" Ulster word but I can't remember it right now
