Killarney

By Michelle&nbsp;Crean&nbsp;
<h3>Calls for full civic reception for David Clifford</h3>
Superstar footballer David Clifford has been compared to Argentina&#8217;s&nbsp;Messi.
At Monday&#8217;s full Kerry County Council meeting councillors were full of praise for both the Fossa and&nbsp;Rathmore&nbsp;teams who won their respective finals a day earlier in Croke Park. Fossa became the All-Ireland Junior Football Champions when they beat&nbsp;Stewartstown&nbsp;Harps, while&nbsp;Rathmore&nbsp;secured the AIB All-Ireland Intermediate Club Football title.
Cllr&nbsp;Mike&nbsp;Kennelly&nbsp;said &#8220;we are currently witnessing the greatest footballer ever&#8221; as he called for a full civic reception to honour David Clifford.
&#8220;I think he&#8217;s the greatest inspiration to every Kerry person. We, as an authority, as a county need to acknowledge this. We need to acknowledge David&#8217;s greatness and inspiration on his unrivalled success over the last 12 months. Argentina has&nbsp;Messi&nbsp;but we have the Messiah and we&#8217;ve got to protect him and honour that. Most people will agree with us that he is the greatest we have ever seen.&#8221;
However, cautiously&nbsp;Cllr&nbsp;Cahill&nbsp;added that it&#8217;s better to hold a civic reception for both teams rather than single out&nbsp;one player.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not too sure about singling out David. Maybe talk to the family on that.&nbsp;Paudie&nbsp;got an All Star this year and last year and was Man of the Match at several games.&nbsp;I&#8217;m not saying we shouldn&#8217;t do it but tease it out a little bit further.&#8221;
The matter was referred to the CPG.

"Argentina have Messi but we have the Messiah"

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