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00:00In the President's role, you sort of move a lot through the different levels of the game, from grassroots right up to the elite level, sort of everything we do.
00:09We're heavily invested here in the Irish Football Association and all of those levels, the elite, the national team, grassroots.
00:15And also Clearwater Irish Cup, which I agree with Patrick and with Ross, as two excellent families over the last two years.
00:22It's been a great partnership there, and I think probably halfway through that partnership we're obviously sort of badgering you maybe about the human rights.
00:29We had a conversation or so about it, and it was gently mentioned you along, so it's lovely to have us at the point here today where we now have the human rights.
00:37It's very much an investment in the future of football, as far as I'm concerned. It's a collaboration, a partnership, as Patrick has said.
00:44And again, funding from this will help us improve things at grassroots level, improve the fan experience, and everyone should benefit from this in some form or another.
00:54It is a local company, and that enhances things even further for us, but there's also history attached to the stadium at Royal Royal.
01:02It was interesting. Patrick said 1905 was the first game. Well, the tour guides tell me my great-grandfather played in that first game.
01:08It was Linfield against Glen Tornie who played for the Glens in that match, but we later turned out for Linfield in his career.
01:14My family were there at the start of that, and it's nice to be a part of it today that we're announcing a new partnership with the Cleary Group and the Cleary Twist name.
01:24To all of you, this is still the home of football. This is still your home.
01:28Today's announcement just strengthens our commitment to football in Northern Ireland and to working with good partners so that we can develop the power of football to help with all of the various good work that's done out there.
01:39And the RISA Foundation, the work that Cleary are doing through people with different abilities, mixed abilities, as well as the discussion and organizational lines very closely with what we do through the Foundation.
01:50It doesn't always get the press inches it might deserve, but the work we do through the Foundation with all sorts of groups that we can always get access to football is incredibly powerful.
01:59So, I'm absolutely delighted, and it's great to get this over the line in the beginning of the point we're at, to be able to call this the Cleary Twist National Stadium at Windsor Park.
02:08I'm moving forward to a long and fruitful partnership, and thank you all for joining us today.