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Pat Jennings: "I never dreamt I'd be back in Newry unveiling a statue"
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08/11/2023
Pat Jennings spoke to the crowd after a statue was unveiled in his honour in Newry.
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applause to Pat Jennings. Pat, come forward please, come forward. How special a day is
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this for you? I can't believe it's happening this evening. I've watched other people get
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statues available and never thought it would ever happen to me. I can say that I've had
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an unbelievable career in football from leaving here as a 17 year old to join Watford and
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never dreamt I'd be back 60 years later, over 60 years, and unveiling a statue. And I'm
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made a lovely place here. I have every opportunity I'm back home. Lovely to see the family and
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friends here over the years. It would have been easy to put this statue at Windsor Park,
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but why was it important for you to have it here in your home city? This is basically
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my home, my home city, where I wouldn't have wanted it anywhere else. I was lucky enough
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to have where football started for me and out of the middle. I had that named Jennings
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Park in 1976 and I've really been proud of that. Everywhere I go, I've never missed the
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opportunity to acknowledge that and thank people, thank the Newly Council for putting
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that up. And I know you have a lot of people you would like to say a quick thank you to
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today, because obviously there's been a long list of people who have helped make this possible
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today. It was important to Pat to publicly thank all of you today. And I don't want to
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leave anybody out, that's why I'm reading it. So I'd like to thank the committee members,
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Adrian Toner, Laurie Powell, Kevin McAllister, Wayne Dennett, Doug Nash, Gary Locks, and
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Eamon Markey. And a further thanks go to Ted Carson, Lindsay Graydon, Pat O'Hagan, Pat
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Savage, Vicky Keenan, Michael Savage, Gerry Armstrong, and yourself Steve for a fantastic
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job. Yeah, incredible talents. Also, Mandy Edwards, who has done a fantastic job here
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we'll see in a minute. Chris Butler and all the whole team at Castlepoint Arts Foundry
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in North Wales. And finally a big thanks to everyone who's contributed in any way to making
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this possible. All the finances that were involved and all the people that put functions
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on, the golf clubs, all that sort of stuff. Everybody had spent a pound, thousands of
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pounds. Thankfully I'll never forget what's happened today. It's worth absolutely every
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penny and all the effort that was put in. And I just wanted to say on behalf of us all,
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we're delighted that you're here today and you're looking good as well. So thank you
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Pat.
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