How's everyone doing I'm trying to check the validity of a quote for a tatto.
I want the tattoo to read something along the lines of;

"Be a better man than your father" or "Be a better man than your father was"

The translation that I've heard before is as follows;

"Bí níos fearr mar fhear ná d'athair"

However, recently I had one individual tell me that it was wrong...ANY input would be greatly appreciated and if there truely is no accurate verbage for my word choice a saying that reflects that meaning would also be greatly appreciated. Thank you everybody have a great day.

Just some background - this was started over at IGTF:

http://www.irishgaelictranslator.com/tr ... 07841.html

Bríd has commented:

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