RSVP reports.<\/a> The couple welcomed their first child, a son, on August 29, 2021. Their son \u00d3ig\u00ed, who is nearly 5, was born just days after Kerry’s heartbreak to Tyrone in the All-Ireland semi-final.<\/p>\n![\"Kerry\u2019s](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/93113_2823787.jpg\")
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Kerry\u2019s David Clifford with partner Shauna O\u2019Connor(Image: \u00a9INPHO\/Tom Maher)<\/p>\n
Little \u00d3ig\u00ed is already a big GAA fan and loves watching his dad. David told RSVP Magazine last year how his boy has: “gone mad for sport at the moment.”<\/p>\n
“He’s wearing jerseys, and he loves it. But he’s not too happy with me going out training because I’m going to be gone for a couple of hours. He loves coming along with me to watch the Fossa games at the weekend. He’s great craic.”<\/p>\n
David added that everything has fallen into place for him in both his personal and professional life. He joked: “Maybe it will all turn upside down at some stage”<\/p>\n
“It’s fine, that’s just the way things have happened for me. Things fell into place nicely. I’m far from perfect, let that be known. I enjoy life, and I feel like I have a great life. I’m very lucky with the people I have around me.”<\/p>\n
Day job<\/p>\n
Away from the pitch, David works as a secondary school teacher. He currently works at St Brendan’s College in Killarney, where he is a PE teacher.<\/p>\n
He graduated from the Institute of Technology in Tralee with a degree in health and leisure, before completing a Master’s in PE teaching at the University of Limerick.<\/p>\n
Football career<\/p>\n
David made his senior debut at 18 years old during the 2018 National Football League. He plays in the corner-forward or full-forward position. His impressive performances earned him his first Munster medal and his first All-Star. He was also named as the GAA\/GPA Young Footballer of the Year.<\/p>\n
He is a two-time Senior Football All-Ireland winner, a six-time GAA\/GPA All-Star and has won the GAA\/GPA Footballer of the Year a record three times.<\/p>\n
As well as playing for Kerry, he plays at club level for Fossa and at divisional level for East Kerry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The footballer is one of the most well-known GAA names in the country since his debut in 2018…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1964,61,60,6999,112],"class_list":["post-546190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-munster","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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