Clancy leads tributes to legend Makem

“I suppose he was my brother in many ways.”

That was the reaction of music legend Liam Clancy yesterday following news that his life-long friend and collaborator Tommy Makem had died at the age of 74 in America.

The Armagh native had been ill with lung cancer for some time and he passed away on Wednesday night at his home in Dover, New Hampshire, where he moved as a young man more than 50 years ago.