{"id":551266,"date":"2026-07-15T16:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/551266\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T16:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:51:19","slug":"david-clifford-penalty-clip-goes-viral-with-24-million-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/551266\/","title":{"rendered":"David Clifford penalty clip goes viral with 24 million views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video of David Clifford&#8217;s penalty during Kerry&#8217;s All-Ireland semi-final victory over Dublin has gone viral with over 24 million views at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p>An X user shared a clip of the penalty, which was saved before Clifford caught the rebound and fired it into the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>The caption included a World Cup joke: &#8220;If Argentina get a penalty on Wednesday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If Argentina get a penalty on Wednesday<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kn8UN4ox7P\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/kn8UN4ox7P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Oli (@olifisher) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/olifisher\/status\/2076641310711091348?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reference relates to England&#8217;s World Cup semi-final clash against bitter rivals Argentina on Wednesday night. It compared Clifford&#8217;s catch to Diego Maradona&#8217;s infamous &#8216;hand of God&#8217; goal which knocked England out of the 1986 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>While the joke is about football, the clip is brilliant explosure for Gaelic Football and the GAA.<\/p>\n<p>While GAA fans would argue it was a bad penalty, the clip&#8217;s 24.1 million views are certainly not bad for the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Some football fans had evidently never heard of GAA before the Clifford video.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bro, what is this sport,&#8221; one wrote. &#8220;Gaelic football looks like a sport that would be going on in my dreams or something,&#8221; said another.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Huh? What sport is this?&#8221; another X user asked.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakingnews.ie\/sport\/kerry-punish-dublin-to-secure-return-to-all-ireland-sfc-final-1925859.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kerry beat Dublin<\/a> on a 2-18 to 0-20 scoreline, and will face Mayo in the All-Ireland Senior Football Final on Sunday, July 26th.<\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A video of David Clifford&#8217;s penalty during Kerry&#8217;s All-Ireland semi-final victory over Dublin has gone viral with over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-551266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551266","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=551266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}