{"id":514360,"date":"2026-06-23T13:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/514360\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T13:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:16:09","slug":"tributes-paid-as-galway-two-time-all-ireland-winner-paul-clancy-dies-aged-49-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/514360\/","title":{"rendered":"Tributes paid as Galway two-time All-Ireland winner Paul Clancy dies aged 49 \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Galway GAA<\/a> is in mourning after the passing of two-time All-Ireland senior football championship winner Paul Clancy. Clancy, who was a key member of Galway<\/a>\u2019s 1998 and 2001 Sam Maguire winning teams, died on Monday at the age of 49 following an illness. <\/p>\n

The news was confirmed by Galway GAA on Tuesday morning: \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<\/p>\n

Clancy also collected five Connacht senior titles with the Tribesmen between 1998 and 2005.<\/p>\n

He was introduced from the bench late on in the 1998 All-Ireland final victory over Kildare as Galway achieved a first Sam Maguire triumph since 1966.<\/p>\n

He started at wing forward in the 2001 final and scored two points as a P\u00e1draic Joyce-inspired Galway beat Meath in the decider. It remains the county\u2019s last All-Ireland football triumph.<\/p>\n

Two of his teammates from those All-Ireland winning teams are directly involved in this weekend\u2019s quarter-finals. Joyce is currently in his seventh season as Galway senior football manager while Kevin Walsh is a coach with the Cork footballers.<\/p>\n

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\"PaulPaul Clancy playing for Galway against John Hayes of Cork. Photograph: Lorraine O’Sullivan\/Inpho <\/p>\n

Clancy won a Galway intermediate football title with Moycullen in 2007 and added an All-Ireland title at that grade the following February, beating Dublin\u2019s Fingal Ravens in the decider at Croke Park.<\/p>\n

A committed servant to the club, he was Moycullen chairman from 2019 to 2023 \u2013 overseeing an era of unprecedented success during which they won a first ever Galway senior football championship in 2020.<\/p>\n

Moycullen then achieved a maiden senior double in 2022 by winning both the Galway senior title and the Connacht club senior crown.<\/p>\n

He was also involved in several coaching roles over the years \u2013 including with the Garrycastle club in Westmeath, DIT\u2019s Sigerson Cup team and a selector under Alan Mulholland during his spell as Galway manager.<\/p>\n

The Galway senior footballers will face Dublin in an All-Ireland quarter-final at Croke Park on Sunday.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Kerry entered last weekend as Sam Maguire contenders. They came away as outright favouritesOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Galway GAA is in mourning after the passing of two-time All-Ireland senior football championship winner Paul Clancy. Clancy,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30883,4500,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-514360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-galway-gaa","tag-galway","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514360","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=514360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}