{"id":514181,"date":"2026-06-23T10:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T10:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/514181\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T10:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T10:52:13","slug":"double-all-ireland-winning-galway-footballer-paul-clancy-dies-aged-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/514181\/","title":{"rendered":"Double All-Ireland-winning Galway footballer Paul Clancy dies aged 49"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Paul Clancy, Galway\u2019s two-time All-Ireland-winning footballer, has passed away at the age of 49 following an extended illness.<\/p>\n<p>The Maigh Cuilinn clubman died on Monday. Galway GAA confirmed the sad news in a social media post on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIt is with immense sadness that we heard about the sad and untimely passing of our former double All-Ireland Senior Football winning player, Paul Clancy. Ar dheis D\u00e9 go raibh a anam.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Clancy claimed Celtic Crosses with his county in 1998 and 2001. He was a used substitute in the \u201998 win over Kildare and was wing-forward in the \u201901 victory against Meath.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He won five Connacht medals \u2013 1998, 2000, \u201902, \u201903, 05 \u2013 as well as an All-Ireland intermediate with Maigh Cuilinn in 2008 having won the corresponding county and provincial titles the previous year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Clancy managed his club\u2019s senior team along with his late brother-in-law and former Roscommon footballer Don Connellan who passed away last August at the age of 51.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Clancy also served as chairman of his club from 2019 to \u201923 during which time they won their first-ever senior county title in 2020 and a county-provincial double two years later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He was a selector to Laois manager Justin McNulty. He previously managed Westmeath club Garrycastle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Clancy, Galway\u2019s two-time All-Ireland-winning footballer, has passed away at the age of 49 following an extended illness.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30883,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-514181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-galway-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514181","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=514181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}