Paddy ‘Both Barrels’ Clancy: the newspaperman who trained a generation

Cormac O'Keeffe pays tribute to the formidable editor whose sharp instincts, tougher lessons and humanity shaped generations of reporters

Remembering Paddy “Both Barrels” Clancy, a legendary editor who trained generations of Irish journalists. File picture

It was a deep shock this morning to hear of the passing of journalist Paddy Clancy — or, as many of us who worked for him in our youth would call him, Paddy “Both Barrels” Clancy.

He was old school in every sense of the word.