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Steelers-Vikings in Dublin? Here We Go! · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Irish airline air Lingus will proudly serve as the presenting
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  Speaker 1: partner of Steelers Ireland twenty twenty five. Airlingus's growth in
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  Speaker 1: North America continues in twenty twenty five as the airline
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  Speaker 1: prepares to fly to two new US destinations, Nashville and Indianapolis,
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  Speaker 1: using its new Airbus eight three twenty one xl or aircraft.
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  Speaker 1: This brings the number of transatlantic routes operated by the
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  Speaker 1: airline from Dublin, Shannon and Manchester to twenty four. Steelers
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  Speaker 1: fans traveling to Ireland for the Big Game can enjoy
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  Speaker 1: a relaxing journey when they fly with air Lingus. Air Lingus,
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  Speaker 1: You're very welcome.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, Welcome into the Irish Steelers Podcast, presented by Aerlingus.
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  Speaker 2: On this historic day forty NFL on the Island of Ireland.
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  Speaker 2: Michael mccady here and here it is, folks, Steelers Nation.
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  Speaker 2: It's time to take flight with air Lingus, an official
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  Speaker 2: airline partner of the Pittsburgh Steeters and the founding partner
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  Speaker 2: of Ireland. There's never been a better time to book
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  Speaker 2: your trip to Dublin with nineteen North American gate Wiz
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  Speaker 2: including flights from nearby Cleveland. Get ready for warm, Irish
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  Speaker 2: hospitality and plenty of room on board for your terrible title,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's game day or a getaway. Erlingus looks forward
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  Speaker 2: to saying you're very welcome to the players and fans
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  Speaker 2: of the Pittsburgh Staters, and you can book now at
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  Speaker 2: erlingus dot com. And that message has never felt more
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  Speaker 2: opt than on a day like this. Today has been
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  Speaker 2: the day where history has been made. And we know,
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  Speaker 2: and we have known from early February that the Steelers
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  Speaker 2: will make history as a designated home team for the
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five Dublin game, but today it was official.
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  Speaker 2: They'll play the Minnesota Vikings in Week four of the
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  Speaker 2: season in Crook Park Sunday, September to twenty eighth. Before
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  Speaker 2: we talk about that a little bit more, let's hear
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  Speaker 2: from coach Tomlin on his thoughts on the matchup.
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  Speaker 3: Man, we're unbelievably excited about this opportunity to play and
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  Speaker 3: Dublin really for two very specific reasons. First, Man, it
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  Speaker 3: is an honor and a privilege to represent the game
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  Speaker 3: of American football internationally and maybe introduce it to a
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  Speaker 3: new set of fans. It is a great honor to
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  Speaker 3: play the game that we love and to be able
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  Speaker 3: to do so on foreign soil. Number two, I smile
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  Speaker 3: when I think about the late great Ambassador Rooney and
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  Speaker 3: how fired up he would be about this game. I
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  Speaker 3: remember when he was Ambassador to Ireland, he used to
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  Speaker 3: have a Fourth of July flag football game every year,
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  Speaker 3: and so I think about him. But I also just
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  Speaker 3: simply think about the honor and privilege to play our
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  Speaker 3: game globally.
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  Speaker 2: Coach Tomblin on the Irish Sedis podcasts and a fight
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  Speaker 2: Erlings on. As we get closer, on closer to September,
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  Speaker 2: we can finally say that this is really really exciting
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  Speaker 2: and funnily enough, the last time the Steelers played it
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  Speaker 2: in Austleon was in twenty thirteen in Wembley Stadium, ironically
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  Speaker 2: against the same opposition, the Minnesota Vikings. So look, there's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be a lot of talk, there's gonna be a
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  Speaker 2: lot of reaction to this over the next few weeks.
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  Speaker 2: I as a fan first and foremost, I feel that
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  Speaker 2: a lot of Steelers fans, a lot of NFL fans
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  Speaker 2: in Ireland today will agree this feels like it's finally happened.
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  Speaker 2: It's finally here. I know it was announced in February,
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  Speaker 2: but today it really seems real for the first time.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm sharing that excitement with you. Thank you for
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  Speaker 2: listening here today on the podcast, We've got a great
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  Speaker 2: guest today in sky Sports NFL analyst Phoebe Shacter. We're
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  Speaker 2: gonna talk about about the game. We're gonna talk about
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  Speaker 2: it about her career as well on the Irish Steelers Podcast. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: it is obviously the biggest day, I says so far
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  Speaker 2: for any Steelers fan in Ireland across Europe. At the
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  Speaker 2: Steelers announced today to play a game in Dublin. We
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  Speaker 2: all know that, but their opponent's going to be in
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  Speaker 2: Minnesota Vikings twenty at September. And a person that has
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  Speaker 2: walked to staters, analyzed staters and a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: will nowhere from our screens on sky Sports, alongside coaching
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  Speaker 2: on flag football among them, but a million of our things.
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  Speaker 2: Probably the busiest woman I know, Phoebe sh Actor Faults.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome into the Irish Theaters Podcast. How are you doing.
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing great. Thank you so much for having me.
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  Speaker 4: I'm so excited that the schedule release has finally happened
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  Speaker 4: the excitement around this and it has not disappointed. What
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  Speaker 4: an amazing group of like matchups we have and you
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  Speaker 4: know everyone's been dying to find out who the Stealers
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  Speaker 4: are playing, and so to have this big reveal, it's
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  Speaker 4: going to be a phenomenal game.
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  Speaker 2: It's great to have you on and I appreciate your
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  Speaker 2: time because I know you're very very busy, but it's
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  Speaker 2: it's been really cool to see and I know when
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  Speaker 2: you've got a lot of the teams in Ireland and
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  Speaker 2: the UK marketing WI I say, appear a lot in
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  Speaker 2: sky Sports and we have seen a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: staters over the last while. I'm just realizing as we
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  Speaker 2: speak you've had the opportunity to be at some of
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  Speaker 2: the watch parties. Indul I think you were the very
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  Speaker 2: very first one. I remember how excited you were on that,
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  Speaker 2: Like how did you find that? Because I think that
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  Speaker 2: was like really the first of its kind in Ireland
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  Speaker 2: or to the UK.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't you know. There were so many things that
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  Speaker 4: I really enjoyed about it. I mean that was also
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  Speaker 4: my first time going to Croke Park, which was just
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  Speaker 4: phenomenal in its own right. How massive it is and historic,
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  Speaker 4: but then the way that the Steelers made it feel
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  Speaker 4: like you were truly at a Steelers home game. So
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  Speaker 4: we had been we'd done the first game of the season,
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  Speaker 4: not last season, the year before at like literally in Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 4: and so kind of understanding what a home game feels
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  Speaker 4: like and then seeing how that's translated over in Dublin.
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  Speaker 4: You know, from from the music that they were playing,
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  Speaker 4: to the food that was served, the terrible towels, the
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  Speaker 4: you know, just the black and yellow everywhere. You really
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  Speaker 4: got a true sense of what it's like to be
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  Speaker 4: at a home game. And I think it's really important
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  Speaker 4: the thought around the details that the Steelers bring to
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  Speaker 4: the tape, you know, and making it as game like
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  Speaker 4: for everybody around the world, which is what makes this
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  Speaker 4: game coming up this year so incredible to think about,
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  Speaker 4: like how they're truly gonna make it feel like you
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  Speaker 4: were in Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 2: I remember, I think we probably had that conversation back
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  Speaker 2: a couple of years ago, even like when you were
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  Speaker 2: walking to the restroom, like the walls had different memorabili ones,
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  Speaker 2: so I thought that you were actually actually an akasher.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to just switch back even before that, just
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  Speaker 2: very quickly before we talk about the news today, because
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  Speaker 2: the thing is really important as well. You guys went
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  Speaker 2: over to the Niners game I think it was two
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  Speaker 2: seasons ago and I started the season. There wasn't a
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  Speaker 2: great result for Stears fans, but you had the chance,
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  Speaker 2: if I recall my great memory Phoebe, that you have
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  Speaker 2: the chances to sit down with mister Rooney I think
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  Speaker 2: a day or two before the game, and how did
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  Speaker 2: you find that? And like did it really open your mind?
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  Speaker 2: Like I know you grew up around football, but did
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  Speaker 2: it open your mind more to to Pittsburgh, to the
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  Speaker 2: Staters and their history as well?
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  Speaker 4: You know what, I was so nervous down with mister
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  Speaker 4: Rudy himself, and he has this presence about him when
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  Speaker 4: you get the opportunity to talk to him, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: you think about the history that they have, and you
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  Speaker 4: know how much work they've done in Ireland in the US,
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  Speaker 4: the way that they really again, like I want to
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  Speaker 4: keep going back to that details element, but you know
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  Speaker 4: you've got their own essentially like museum at the Stadium
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  Speaker 4: and Acroshure, you know. And I was so fortunate to
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  Speaker 4: be able to have Dan Rooney take us around and
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  Speaker 4: show us and why you know, imagine Neil and I
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  Speaker 4: getting this like personalized tour, looking at all the history,
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  Speaker 4: the steel curtain going over, pretending we're commentators in the booth,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, it was just phenomenal to have that.
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  Speaker 4: And I think to have that first home game, and
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  Speaker 4: I'll always remember it because I have never literally felt
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  Speaker 4: anything like that kickoff because the ground was reverberating with
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  Speaker 4: the nose and excitement, and you know, we have our
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  Speaker 4: noise canceling headphones, but you literally could barely hear each
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  Speaker 4: other speaking to each other. And then you bring out
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  Speaker 4: you know, you see the terrible towels going and man,
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  Speaker 4: that was just an incredible experience to be there, to
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  Speaker 4: have that view and truly live that like first home game,
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  Speaker 4: and the fans were relentless.
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  Speaker 2: It was like like to even for people listen to
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  Speaker 2: this and maybe have another chance to go to actor Sure,
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  Speaker 2: I can only really repost Phoebe's thoughts here like the
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  Speaker 2: tour if you walk around it, folks, if you ever
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  Speaker 2: get a chance to do, if you're theaters fans, listen
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  Speaker 2: to this or not give it a go, because a
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  Speaker 2: game day is really special there, but what they have
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  Speaker 2: built there is awesome, so definitely check it out and
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  Speaker 2: check out the Chief Sachio outside as well. It's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Phoebe.
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  Speaker 2: You obviously work on a number of different games in London,
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  Speaker 2: in Germany and across the world really bit more so
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  Speaker 2: obviously in Europe over the last few years with sky
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  Speaker 2: Sports NFL. Long when that continue and when you see
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  Speaker 2: the news that's came out today in regards to the
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  Speaker 2: Steelers playing the Vikings at Cork Park, I know that
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  Speaker 2: it was announced the Bowl week and like Wet, we
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  Speaker 2: met each other on the day it was announced and
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  Speaker 2: there was obviously a lot of excitement. But I had
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  Speaker 2: said to my friend Mark earlier on it feels like
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  Speaker 2: it's almost the closing of a chapter.
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  Speaker 3: In terms of.
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  Speaker 2: One, we can finally talk about the data for people
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  Speaker 2: listening the twentieth September week four, and two we can
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  Speaker 2: actually really look forward to what this matchup is going
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  Speaker 2: to be. When you hear as the Steelers against the Vikings,
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  Speaker 2: how much does that excite you? Because I think of
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  Speaker 2: Kevin O'Connell's surname for a start. You got the irishman's
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  Speaker 2: surname right there, like Henry Hodgson literally jumped in and
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  Speaker 2: asked a question in the press conference earlier on at
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  Speaker 2: that we know how exciting the Vikings can be as well,
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  Speaker 2: and they had experience in going over to London, but
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  Speaker 2: more so as well. Steels obviously have made some big
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  Speaker 2: upgrades this season. They've brought on DK Metcalfs. So everything's
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  Speaker 2: on paper and it promises in just about just under
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  Speaker 2: four months now, well just over four months. Like Bob
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  Speaker 2: Mole's on my side, it's gonna be something really, really special.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to be incredibly special. And I think, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you look at it's essentially a rematch right from twenty
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  Speaker 4: thirteen that we had these two teams over playing and
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  Speaker 4: that was an incredible game. Then with absolute legends of
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  Speaker 4: the game, you know, Ben Roethlisberger at quarterback, Adrian Peterson,
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  Speaker 4: you had a slew of incredible athletes on both sides
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  Speaker 4: of the ball. And I think that's what makes these
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  Speaker 4: international games so special is we have the Vikings and
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  Speaker 4: the Steelers who are making history. The Steelers who have
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  Speaker 4: been you know, have the longest term head coach in
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  Speaker 4: terms of getting to the playoffs. I mean, he has
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  Speaker 4: so many tomlinisms around him and like that true standard
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  Speaker 4: is the standard and he's going to bring that no
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  Speaker 4: matter where he is in the world. And people get
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  Speaker 4: to watch history essentially, and like you're saying the upgrades
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  Speaker 4: that that the Steelers have with Dk Metcalf, what that
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  Speaker 4: offense is gonna look like, and again against a very
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  Speaker 4: stout defense for the Vikings. But those first four weeks
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  Speaker 4: of the season is anybody's game, and because people are
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  Speaker 4: always trying to figure out their identity, you know it
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  Speaker 4: ultimately is it could go either way. And I think
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  Speaker 4: that anticipation and that understanding of the Steelers have such
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  Speaker 4: a clear identity of what they bring to the table.
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  Speaker 4: The fans get to see that, they get to be
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  Speaker 4: a part of that, and they get to kind of
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  Speaker 4: carry this magical moment with them, with the Roonies, with Tomlin,
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  Speaker 4: with this fantastic set of athletes, and so I think
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  Speaker 4: that's some of the people want to just see that
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  Speaker 4: be around that, and that's why I think it's going
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  Speaker 4: to make it so special.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna fly in on a stony because you're saying
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  Speaker 2: out there, but it being special in Isan de night. Look,
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  Speaker 2: we obviously love the league and we're involved with the
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  Speaker 2: league and different aspects and stuff. But to even said
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  Speaker 2: tonight that I know people will listen to this will agree.
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  Speaker 2: I was watching our t news in the Republic and
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  Speaker 2: Easy and lover An Ireland. The top story and the
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  Speaker 2: sports news was this game being announced. So there's a big,
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  Speaker 2: big excitement and they're also trying to explain it for
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  Speaker 2: new fans. And that's why I wanted to end on
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  Speaker 2: Phoebe just before you might get a little bull production
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  Speaker 2: for yourself. I'll put you in a spot in a
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  Speaker 2: few minutes. But a couple of things the Steelers have
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  Speaker 2: done really really well over the last couple of years
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  Speaker 2: outside of the watch parties has been getting young people
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  Speaker 2: involved in football clinics flag football. I know you're very,
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  Speaker 2: very passionate and you literally travel the world. You've got
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  Speaker 2: your own flag podcast as well. Congrats on that. How
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  Speaker 2: important do you think is it in terms of having
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  Speaker 2: young girls, young boys come in especially for like you know,
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  Speaker 2: the ages of eight to twelve, ten to fourteen, from
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  Speaker 2: any background where it's Gaelic football, rugby, whatever, How important
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  Speaker 2: is that for them to try and not just learn
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  Speaker 2: the sport of flag football, but to go to clinics
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  Speaker 2: and learn from experts.
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  Speaker 4: You know what, there's so many great elements that the
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  Speaker 4: Steelers are actually bringing to the table, because there's really
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  Speaker 4: in the past two years they have truly just dove
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  Speaker 4: headfirst into growing the sport the grassroots and injecting the enthusiasm, financially, equipment,
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  Speaker 4: whatever that looks like. And to see how, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we talk about it in all these other countries where
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  Speaker 4: fandom is truly at its highest now it starts at
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  Speaker 4: grassroots and so taking those amazing athletes from hurling and
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  Speaker 4: Gaelic football and camogi and making sure that everyone feels
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  Speaker 4: like they've got equal rights to fall in love with
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  Speaker 4: the sport. I mean, I even loved the advertisement essentially
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  Speaker 4: for the game from NFL. It was about young people.
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  Speaker 4: It was about being cool and excited and friends getting
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  Speaker 4: together and watching his sport and that kind of rivalry.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we walk around these cities and we see
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  Speaker 4: people wearing Steelers gear or any other NFL team, and
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  Speaker 4: you're like, all right, community has already started, and now
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  Speaker 4: you're starting that from a young age where you get
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  Speaker 4: to be a young boy or girl who you're four
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  Speaker 4: year five, you get to wear Steelers gear and now
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  Speaker 4: the team's coming over here. You might even do a
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  Speaker 4: community day with one of these players. I mean, the
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  Speaker 4: ability of that touch point is something that I think
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  Speaker 4: the NFL does a terrific job of. But I think
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  Speaker 4: the Steelers have such a big effort in terms of
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  Speaker 4: their community aspect and their community outreach because they understand
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  Speaker 4: how much they can impact people's lives and that again,
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  Speaker 4: everyone deserves the opportunity to get better, to fall in
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  Speaker 4: love with a sport, and you know, we talk so
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  Speaker 4: much about it within flag football, especially for girls. Forty
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  Speaker 4: percent of our girls who are playing flag football have
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  Speaker 4: never played another sport. So now you're getting people active
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  Speaker 4: who may never even been active before or interested in sport,
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  Speaker 4: and that's truly changing lives. So I mean, my hat
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  Speaker 4: is off to the Steelers for all the work they've
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  Speaker 4: done so far. And I hope in twenty thirty two
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  Speaker 4: that maybe we'll see one of the Steelers' players playing
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  Speaker 4: for Team Ireland. I think that would be an absolute
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  Speaker 4: dream because they started that journey.
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  Speaker 2: I love that, and I love the little Komogi reference
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  Speaker 2: as well. Well done by click from me there, well done,
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  Speaker 2: look no just out on that. Like I've been to
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  Speaker 2: a couple of local games a lot named the teams
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  Speaker 2: in AFI over the last couple of weeks and I've
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  Speaker 2: seen Staelers gear. I've seen different different teams, young boys,
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  Speaker 2: young girls, like from the age of four or five.
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  Speaker 2: We're in different jerseys, so it's really really cool to see.
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  Speaker 2: So it's going to keep growing and growing and growing
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  Speaker 2: twenty at September Vikings at the Staelors designated home team
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  Speaker 2: first every game in code Park Ireland, UK, Ireland TV
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  Speaker 2: Channel TBC, I will send up a prayer phobe. It's
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  Speaker 2: on SkySports NFL, but regardless, I just want to wish
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  Speaker 2: you the very very best over the next few weeks
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  Speaker 2: and months. Enjoy any downtime you might get over this period,
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  Speaker 2: and before you know it, it's going to be the fourth,
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  Speaker 2: fourth or fifth of September and it's all going to
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  Speaker 2: get in the road of game. But here, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for coming on, because I feel like we've got three
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  Speaker 2: people now on from SkySports NFL. We're getting that. I
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  Speaker 2: think we're at gson Bell away from greatness and appreciate
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  Speaker 2: coming on on what was not just a busy death
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  Speaker 2: for yourself. But I'm pretty sitting there, pretty historic there,
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  Speaker 2: So thank you very much and we will chat youson.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much and thanks for all the work
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  Speaker 4: that you're doing to grow the sport in Ireland.
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  Speaker 1: Irish airline air Lingus will proudly serve as the presenting
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  Speaker 1: partner of Steelers Ireland twenty twenty five. Airlingus's growth in
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  Speaker 1: North America continues in twenty twenty five as the airline
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  Speaker 1: prepares to fly to two new US destinations, Nashville and Indianapolis,
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  Speaker 1: using its new Airbus eight three twenty one excel Or aircraft.
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  Speaker 1: This brings the number of transatlantic routes operated by the
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  Speaker 1: airline from Dublin, Shannon and Manchester to twenty four. Steelers
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  Speaker 1: fans traveling to Ireland for the Big Game can enjoy
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  Speaker 1: a relaxing journey when they fly with air Lingus. Air Lingus,
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  Speaker 1: You're very welcome.