Dublin’s Lord Mayor learns Pittsburghese and says Steelers game is ‘massive’ for the city
Lord Mayor, thank you for having us. Uh, let me begin by asking you about this event, NFL football in Dublin. Uh, what has been the vibe from the people in this city to having this event here? Well, look, they have the first regular season NFL game here in the city of Dublin. It’s *** big, big, big deal. And over the course of the last week, in particular, you’re starting to see the excitement, the energy grow right across the city. We know it’s so big because we know there’s going to be millions of eyes on Dublin, on Croke Park on Sunday. We hope it’s *** good game. We know it’ll be *** good game. Um, but it is, it puts Dublin front and center and as Lord Mayor of Dublin, I’m proud to see our our city front and center in the thick of it, and we’re looking forward to welcoming so many Americans to the city over the course of the coming days. What about economically? What does it do for this? This is massive. If I look at other big sports events we’ve seen over the city over the summer, we’ve seen to the tune of about 150 to €200 million in revenue, just the city. We’re going to see full hotel rooms. We’re going to see the opportunity for publicans, for hotels, all to really enjoy. We’ll have an opportunity then for our tourist attractions to really to be filled out. We have some great museums here in the city. There’s one fantastic facility in my own electoral area, the epic museum. It tells the story of Dublin. It tells the story of Ireland, and so many Americans are particularly Irish Americans when they come here, they always like. To check out their genealogy, so I know they’re going to be very busy this week and long may that continue. What about the business connections that may be formed? I know *** number of Pittsburgh companies are coming here to check it out to see if this is *** place they can do business. Is that part of the that’s the key thing. Like one of the things we’ve been doing over the summer and I saw this with other big sports, international sports events that have been here, it’s the interaction not only economically but politically as well. And what I’m looking to do as Lord Mayor of Dublin is to see how we can build the city. The city to city ties, how we can then at *** political level, both Irish national level to the US government and the state level as well. So it’s all about building relationships. It’s building and strengthening the bonds of friendship and indeed family that exists between Ireland and the United States, and I just hope, and I know that all those Americans that are going to come to my city over the next couple of days, they’re going to have *** blast. How unique is it to have an American football game? It is, I can’t, I can’t underscore the significance of this to Croke Park. Like this has been home to our national games, the Gaelic Games, for more than 125 years. Some of the rubble from the Easter Rising of 1916 was used to build the Hill 16 Terrace that would be that *** lot of your compatriots will be on at the weekends. So this is *** big deal. This is an important deal and when you Look at the history of Croke Park over the years and the way we’ve had huge sporting events, be it rugby, soccer, having *** regular NFL game to that list is *** big, big deal. You told me about the passion of Dubliners in terms of the sports they follow, so you can relate to Pittsburghers and their passion for the Steelers and really all their teams. Absolutely. Not only do Dubliners love sports, Dubliners love supporters who get behind their team who show their team’s colors. And like one of the things that I can guarantee you this week, Dubliners are going to fall in love with the Steelers. Dubliners are going to fall in love with your supporters because we identify and we show our passion. When you go to *** GA match, when you go to *** Dublin game, there are no supporters like Dublin supporters, and your fans are going to see that first and center this weekend. Now we were just talking. You have *** pretty busy week. I mean, the game would be the big thing, but you have *** presentation to make this week. This week, yeah, I have. There’s another important US visitor coming to Dublin this evening. Former President Barack Obama is coming this week. 8 years ago, City council voted to award both himself and former First Lady Michelle the freedom of the city of Dublin. This will be the first time that President Obama will be in the city since being being awarded that freedom, and it’ll be an opportunity to present him with the freedom and to mark his contribution. Uh, to, uh, in America, but also his contribution on the global stage and to the strengthening relations between Ireland and America. Lord Mayor, I want to have *** little fun if I could. Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh. Have you heard the language? Have you heard about it? It’s it’s *** way of speaking, is this *** bit like *** Dublin. I think we’ve got your own, you’ve got your own sporting language. Yeah, well, it’s *** language that we use for everything, right? I’ll give you *** word, for instance. Instead of saying you, OK, the word is yin, Yin, Yin, can you say yins Yin Yin Yin Yin is you in Pittsburgh. Yin. Well, we’re looking forward to meeting as many yins in Dublin this week. And have you seen *** terrible to before? I have, I’ve seen *** few of these that I’ve been *** played *** bit of football in my time, not American football, mind you. What do you think about the terrible to? And it’s uh it’s kind of *** unique. It is, it’s exceptional. That’s the way to put it. It’s exceptional. It’s been in the wars as you can see. I can see, but look at, it’s, there’s obviously there’s *** lot of sweat. There’s been *** lot of effort, and that’s what you want when you see, that’s what we want to see on the pitch this weekend as well. Brilliant. Lord Mayor, thank you so much for having us. It’s pleasure. Thank you. I’ve been, it’s been *** pleasure to have you in the Lord Mayor’s garden. It’s been *** pleasure to have you here. This is my garden, and it’s been *** pleasure to have you guys here in Dublin and it’s just we’re, we’re so looking forward to the game this weekend and we’re so looking forward to welcoming uh so many Americans to the city. And what I just say is, if you see all your neighbors and your friends over here this weekend, that means you’ve got to come here sometime soon.
Lord Mayor, thank you for having us. Uh, let me begin by asking you about this event, NFL football in Dublin. Uh, what has been the vibe from the people in this city to having this event here? Well, look, they have the first regular season NFL game here in the city of Dublin. It’s *** big, big, big deal. And over the course of the last week, in particular, you’re starting to see the excitement, the energy grow right across the city. We know it’s so big because we know there’s going to be millions of eyes on Dublin, on Croke Park on Sunday. We hope it’s *** good game. We know it’ll be *** good game. Um, but it is, it puts Dublin front and center and as Lord Mayor of Dublin, I’m proud to see our our city front and center in the thick of it, and we’re looking forward to welcoming so many Americans to the city over the course of the coming days. What about economically? What does it do for this? This is massive. If I look at other big sports events we’ve seen over the city over the summer, we’ve seen to the tune of about 150 to €200 million in revenue, just the city. We’re going to see full hotel rooms. We’re going to see the opportunity for publicans, for hotels, all to really enjoy. We’ll have an opportunity then for our tourist attractions to really to be filled out. We have some great museums here in the city. There’s one fantastic facility in my own electoral area, the epic museum. It tells the story of Dublin. It tells the story of Ireland, and so many Americans are particularly Irish Americans when they come here, they always like. To check out their genealogy, so I know they’re going to be very busy this week and long may that continue. What about the business connections that may be formed? I know *** number of Pittsburgh companies are coming here to check it out to see if this is *** place they can do business. Is that part of the that’s the key thing. Like one of the things we’ve been doing over the summer and I saw this with other big sports, international sports events that have been here, it’s the interaction not only economically but politically as well. And what I’m looking to do as Lord Mayor of Dublin is to see how we can build the city. The city to city ties, how we can then at *** political level, both Irish national level to the US government and the state level as well. So it’s all about building relationships. It’s building and strengthening the bonds of friendship and indeed family that exists between Ireland and the United States, and I just hope, and I know that all those Americans that are going to come to my city over the next couple of days, they’re going to have *** blast. How unique is it to have an American football game? It is, I can’t, I can’t underscore the significance of this to Croke Park. Like this has been home to our national games, the Gaelic Games, for more than 125 years. Some of the rubble from the Easter Rising of 1916 was used to build the Hill 16 Terrace that would be that *** lot of your compatriots will be on at the weekends. So this is *** big deal. This is an important deal and when you Look at the history of Croke Park over the years and the way we’ve had huge sporting events, be it rugby, soccer, having *** regular NFL game to that list is *** big, big deal. You told me about the passion of Dubliners in terms of the sports they follow, so you can relate to Pittsburghers and their passion for the Steelers and really all their teams. Absolutely. Not only do Dubliners love sports, Dubliners love supporters who get behind their team who show their team’s colors. And like one of the things that I can guarantee you this week, Dubliners are going to fall in love with the Steelers. Dubliners are going to fall in love with your supporters because we identify and we show our passion. When you go to *** GA match, when you go to *** Dublin game, there are no supporters like Dublin supporters, and your fans are going to see that first and center this weekend. Now we were just talking. You have *** pretty busy week. I mean, the game would be the big thing, but you have *** presentation to make this week. This week, yeah, I have. There’s another important US visitor coming to Dublin this evening. Former President Barack Obama is coming this week. 8 years ago, City council voted to award both himself and former First Lady Michelle the freedom of the city of Dublin. This will be the first time that President Obama will be in the city since being being awarded that freedom, and it’ll be an opportunity to present him with the freedom and to mark his contribution. Uh, to, uh, in America, but also his contribution on the global stage and to the strengthening relations between Ireland and America. Lord Mayor, I want to have *** little fun if I could. Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh. Have you heard the language? Have you heard about it? It’s it’s *** way of speaking, is this *** bit like *** Dublin. I think we’ve got your own, you’ve got your own sporting language. Yeah, well, it’s *** language that we use for everything, right? I’ll give you *** word, for instance. Instead of saying you, OK, the word is yin, Yin, Yin, can you say yins Yin Yin Yin Yin is you in Pittsburgh. Yin. Well, we’re looking forward to meeting as many yins in Dublin this week. And have you seen *** terrible to before? I have, I’ve seen *** few of these that I’ve been *** played *** bit of football in my time, not American football, mind you. What do you think about the terrible to? And it’s uh it’s kind of *** unique. It is, it’s exceptional. That’s the way to put it. It’s exceptional. It’s been in the wars as you can see. I can see, but look at, it’s, there’s obviously there’s *** lot of sweat. There’s been *** lot of effort, and that’s what you want when you see, that’s what we want to see on the pitch this weekend as well. Brilliant. Lord Mayor, thank you so much for having us. It’s pleasure. Thank you. I’ve been, it’s been *** pleasure to have you in the Lord Mayor’s garden. It’s been *** pleasure to have you here. This is my garden, and it’s been *** pleasure to have you guys here in Dublin and it’s just we’re, we’re so looking forward to the game this weekend and we’re so looking forward to welcoming uh so many Americans to the city. And what I just say is, if you see all your neighbors and your friends over here this weekend, that means you’ve got to come here sometime soon.
Dublin’s Lord Mayor learns Pittsburghese and says Steelers game is ‘massive’ for the city
Updated: 7:00 PM EDT Sep 24, 2025
Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 meets Lord Mayor of Dublin Ray McAdam, who is excited to welcome the many Steelers fans traveling to Ireland for the game at Croke Park.He also gets a quick lesson about Pittsburghese and the meaning of “yinz.”Watch the video aboveRoad To Ireland: See more stories and videos from Dublin
DUBLIN —
Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 meets Lord Mayor of Dublin Ray McAdam, who is excited to welcome the many Steelers fans traveling to Ireland for the game at Croke Park.
He also gets a quick lesson about Pittsburghese and the meaning of “yinz.”
Watch the video above
Road To Ireland: See more stories and videos from Dublin