O'Connor: 'The boys got a bit of solace coming into the group'

Kerry boss Jack O’Connor and teammate Seán O’Shea expressed their support for the Clifford brothers, who lost their mother Ellen at the weekend.

The Kerry team stand for a minutes silence in memory of Ellen Clifford - mother of David and Paudie. Pic: ©INPHO/Bryan Keane

For a family so embedded in the GAA, David and Paudie Clifford honoured their late mother, Ellen, in one of the most appropriate and fitting ways they knew how.

The Clifford brothers, having lost their mother to illness earlier in the weekend, made themselves available to the green and gold cause for Sunday’s Munster football final.