“Great” also doesn’t help in this case, since in Hiberno-English (at least to my American ear) it sounds emphatic, not descriptive—that is, “shite” = “shitty st

“Great” also doesn’t help in this case, since in Hiberno-English (at least to my American ear) it sounds emphatic, not descriptive—that is, “shite” = “shitty stuff”, “great shite” = “extremely shitty stuff”.