{"id":418193,"date":"2026-04-26T09:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T09:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/418193\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T09:29:10","slug":"wicklow-shopkeeper-and-dog-racer-paddy-darcy-remembered-as-last-of-the-whistlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/418193\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicklow shopkeeper and dog racer Paddy Darcy remembered as \u2018last of the whistlers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The late Paddy Darcy from Crossbridge, County Wicklow.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a5c590cf-32fb-4d91-890b-696dc0418f52.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The late Paddy Darcy from Crossbridge, County Wicklow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">At the funeral of former Wicklow shop owner Paddy Darcy, who had a love for racing greyhounds and was \u201cone of the easiest going men in Ireland\u201d, his son paid a moving tribute, describing his father as \u201cthe last of the whistlers\u201d and honouring him by whistling the theme tune to TV show Glenroe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Huge crowds of mourners gathered at St Peter and Paul\u2019s Church in Crossbridge to celebrate the life of Paddy, affectionately known as \u2018The Bossman\u2019, a beloved local man who became a cornerstone of the community through the family grocery shop at the crossroads, known for its variety of penny bars and as a place to meet and swap stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The late Paddy Darcy from Crossbridge, County Wicklow. At the funeral of former Wicklow shop owner Paddy Darcy,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5718,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-418193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-eoin-mac-raghnaill","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}