 Later that season he made his first championship appearance and claimed a Munster Championship medal after scoring three points in the 2-08 to 1-08 victory over Tipperary in the final.Clifford ended the season by winning a second successive All-Ireland winners' medal after scoring the winning goal in Cork's All-Ireland final victory over Wexford.Clifford was an automatic inclusion on the Cork starting fifteen for the 1955 Munster Championship, however, a series of injuries brought his inter-county career to end during the 1955-56 National League.