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Heartwarming video captures moment disabled Liverpool fan broke down in tears during club's anthem

2023-09-06 797 Dailymotion

This heartwarming video captures the moment a disabled young Liverpool fan broke down in tears to the club's anthem during his first ever visit to Anfield.<br /><br />Daire Gorman's emotional reaction has been seen millions of times on social media and captured the hearts of strangers around the world.<br /><br />The youngster's dad Kenny, 48, took the video to save the moment he sang along to You'll Never Walk Alone before their game against Aston Villa on Sunday.<br /><br />But he was not expecting such an emotional reaction from 11-year-old Daire, who was born without arms or femur bones.<br /><br />In the clip, he is overcome with emotion as the club’s anthem is played on the tannoy.<br /><br />It's one of the most iconic songs in world football and the entire crowd joins in with scarves aloft.<br /><br />But for Daire, the emotion is too much as he is seen struggling to sing along and has to wipe tears from his eyes at one point.<br /><br />Mum Shelley, 42, said it took her three days to watch the full video because she was so overcome with emotion.<br /><br />She said: "Kenny took the video to capture the experience of Daire singing You'll Never Walk Alone. He never expected Daire to be so emotional.<br /><br />"I just cried when I saw the video. I actually only watched the full video yesterday because everytime I watched it, I just broke down because he's so emotional.<br /><br />"It was something he's wanted to do for years, it really was a dream come true for him."<br /><br />Daire, from Monaghan, Ireland, was born with the extremely rare condition Crommelin Syndrome.<br /><br />The condition caused him to be born with no arms from the elbows down and he's also missing femur bones in both legs meaning he is in a wheelchair full-time.<br /><br />Shelley said the footy-mad lad had wanted to go to see his beloved team live for most of his life, but wheelchair accessible tickets are so limited she gave up hope.<br /><br />But Little Blue Heroes - a charity run by Irish police officers - organised the trip ahead of his twelfth birthday next week.<br /><br />As well as a stadium tour with his parents and youngster sister Aoife, six, on Saturday he was able to watch Liverpool’s 3-0 win over Aston Villa on Sunday.<br /><br />Ted Morris, chairman of the Liverpool Disabled Supporters' Association, gifted his wheelchair bay to Daire for the game.<br /><br />Shelley added: "We tried for so long to get tickets and we couldn't, it's so hard to get wheelchair accessible tickets.<br /><br />"I'd actually given up hope of getting tickets. He was going to ask for them for Christmas this year and I was thinking 'how am I going to do that?'<br /><br />"The charity are great, we only learned about them this year but they make children's dreams come true and they're just there for you when you need help.<br /><br />"And Ted is amazing, he was so good to do that. Daire will be forever grateful for that. <br /><br />"It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for him, he might never get to do that again. We're forever grateful to Ted for it."<br /><br />Since the clip was shared online, Shelley says she's been overwhelmed by the reaction.<br /><br />It has been viewed millions of times on social media, with users commenting how it has touched them.<br /><br />Shelley, who is Daire's full-time carer, added: "It's been an unbelievable reaction.<br /><br />"To get such positivity and for Daire to see how much love people have for him has been amazing. People can be quite cruel to children in a wheelchair.<br /><br />"We've shown him some of the comments and he's been overwhelmed with the love and support. He's still buzzing, he was still crying yesterday.<br /><br />"For people to take time to comment and watch the video, it's just amazing that there's so many kind people out there."<br /><br />Daire said of the day: "It was like an out of body experience."<br /><br />Ted Morris, who helped arrange the trip and gifted his wheelchair bay for Daire to enjoy the game, said: "It's a privilege to be able to help disabled children realise their dreams at Anfield. <br /><br />"In a world that sometimes seems so dark, being able to bring a small ray of light into their lives can make such a difference."<br /><br />A spokesperson for Little Blue Heroes said: "We cannot thank Ted Morris from Liverpool Disabled supporters Association, Stephen Smith from Cavan and our rep for the Cavan/Monaghan region for coming together to make Honorary Garda Daire Gorman. <br /><br />"They truly made is dream of a lifetime to come through and the raw emotion of Daire in the video says it all. Teamwork to make a dream work."

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