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Liverpool fan 'on a high' after meeting football club stars

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A young Liverpool football fan from Co Monaghan is "still on a high" after meeting some of the club's biggest stars.12-year-old Dáire Gorman got the chance to visit Anfield earlier this month, after a video of him at his first game went viral.Dáire was born with a rare condition called Crommelin syndrome, meaning he was born without arms and without femur bones in his legs.For his birthday this year, Dáire was surprised with tickets for a Liverpool match through the Little Blue Heroes charity.His dad filmed his emotional reaction to the crowd singing "You'll never walk alone"."It was my dream, my whole life to go to Anfield.

Dad took the video, to have me singing 'you'll never walk alone' forever."The video shows Dáire in "floods of tears" as the crowd sang."Just with my condition, I always listen to it, knowing that I'm one of five or six [people] in the world with this condition, and that I walk alone with this condition.

Just overcome with emotions listening to 'you'll never walk alone'."After being posted on social media platform X, Dáire said the video "blew up" and it caught the eye of Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp.The sixth-class student from Monaghan was then invited to Anfield with his family once again, where he was met by the club manager, who related to Dáire's emotional response to the anthem.He also got to meet some of his biggest footballing heroes."It was an out of body experience," said Dáire."One thing that will stick with me forever was the time that Darwin Núñez and Luis Diaz just barged through the door and shocked me completely.

Diaz gave me a signed shirt and I broke down in tears again," he said.Dáire described the club manager as "down to earth" and "just like a normal person you'd meet out on

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