‘My voice is gone' – Listen to ecstatic Radio Kerry commentary of David Clifford's best All-Ireland final moments
The Fossa phenom may not have been on the ball much for he was deadly accurate in making his touches county as
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Tim Moynihan embodies why local commentary is so often the best form of the art
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Clifford scored three two-pointers to help fire them to their 39th crown
Radio Kerry have released a near five-minute highlights package of their commentary duo Tim Moynihan and Ambrose O'Donovan calling the action from
The whole video flies by with our personal favourite line describing the Kingdom's frenzied press being akin to "like wasps on cowdung".
A close second is him branding the 26-year-old a mixture of a ballerina and a warrior owing to his balance as he rapidly sidestepped two despairing Donegal men before firing over with his right foot.
There's also a nice additional bit of colour provided by Moynihan noting that Clifford's two-pointer on the cusp of half-time left Off the Ball double-act Paddy Andrews and
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For as much as the soon to be three-time Footballer of the Year was in God mode on the pitch, there was an amusing example of him still
Paudie Clifford may have to look up to make eye contact with David but he very much lives up to the older brother stereotype.
The older Clifford is the more verbose of the two and drove most of their Burlington Hotel interview
Some of the highlights included him noting that they were on the same teams growing up despite the age gap as their community of Fossa is so small that playing numbers were often tight.
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The playmaker also joked about his 76 possessions over the course of
Harking back to the widely lauded Football Review Committee, he quipped: "Jim Gavin and Eamon Fitzmaurice probably didn't envision me soloing the ball on the spot about 100 times when they drew up the new rules!"
Paudie Clifford teases David over childhood nickname during hilarious RTE interview after All-Ireland heroics
The best moment, however, was a classic case of a big brother slagging his younger sibling.
Asked if they'd always had an innate on-pitch chemistry, Paudie shot back: "The chemistry wasn't great now, we fought every day for about two years straight!
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"Mom was just sick of us...Sick of dealing with David crying every two minutes. They actually used to call him 'Watery eyes' because he used to cry so much! So that was the chemistry now."
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While Paudie was all smiles and in relaxed form by that stage of the day, his immediate post-match interview
He vented: "I suppose as a team, we would feel disrespected because we were in three of the last four All-Irelands and we've won two of them now.
"And to be called a one-man team when I see myself some of the work that our lads put in…
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'Like, Joe O'Connor, the turnovers, winning balls, scoring, Jason Foley, Brian Ó Beaglaioch, Gavin White – I'm only naming a few. I see the work that they put in every day.
'To be called a one-man team then, it's nearly like it's disrespectful. It's kind of personal. I suppose that's the angle we were coming from.
'We were close against Armagh last year and we'd be our own worst critics as well. We admitted that we've under-performed definitely as a team over some of the years.
'But I suppose with the work we put in and the players we have there, for them things to be said, it's not nice to hear it."
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