{"id":115566,"date":"2025-10-11T13:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T13:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/115566\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T13:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T13:29:07","slug":"tributes-paid-after-death-of-former-irish-examiner-photographer-kieran-clancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/115566\/","title":{"rendered":"Tributes paid after death of former Irish Examiner photographer Kieran Clancy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tributes have been paid to award-winning Irish press photographer, Kieran Clancy, who sadly passed away following an illness on Friday.<\/p>\n

Originally from Mayorstone, on the outskirts of the Treaty City, Clancy worked for numerous news and public relations agencies and was regarded by many as one of Ireland\u2019s leading press and commercial photographers.<\/p>\n

He had battled with Parkinson\u2019s disease for a number of years and passed away surrounded by family at a nursing home in Co Clare.<\/p>\n

Mr Clancy enjoyed a distinguished career as a freelance photojournalist after spending 20 years as a staff photographer with the Cork Examiner, later the Irish Examiner, based in Limerick and covering news, sport, and entertainment across the midwest.<\/p>\n

He was a former President of the Press Photographers Association of Ireland (PPAI) and, in 2021, was awarded Honorary Membership of the association in recognition of his \u201coutstanding contribution\u201d to press photography in Ireland.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had a great eye for a photograph and the story being told in the image,\u201d said Mr Clancy\u2019s former colleague and friend, Noel Gavin, formerly Irish Daily Star, and the Press 22 photographic agency.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was very competitive \u2014 we all were \u2014 but Kieran was stealthy, he would always get the best photo, the best angle, and he did it quietly.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a great credit to his Dad, Se\u00e1n, who was so long in the photograph business before him.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"IrishIrish Examiner photographer Kieran Clancy shows Nikolai Kutayev aged 6 from Belarus the pictures he has taken on his digital camera at Shannon Airport after Nikolai arrived with the Chernobyl Childrens Project. Picture James Horan\/Press 22<\/p>\n

Legendary Limerick photographer Owen \u201cSouthie\u201d South also paid tribute: \u201cKieran was a lovely man. He was a great photographer with the Examiner working in Limerick. His death is very sad.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a great colleague, a great guy, and he was meticulous with every job that he did \u2014 he always did it right.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Liam Burke, who worked alongside Mr Clancy for decades in Limerick, said: \u201cKieran was a wonderful, award-winning photographer. He was a friend to everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"YuraYura Burmantau, 8, from Chernobyl with ‘Irish Examiner’ photographer Kieran Clancy presenting him with a framed photo of himself\u00a0 in 2001.<\/p>\n

Kieran Clancy\u2019s late father, Se\u00e1n, worked in Limerick as Midwest regional photojournalist for the Irish Independent, while his late brother, Kevin, was regarded as a pioneering press photographer and among the first in Ireland to transition from film to digital photography.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was an inspirational photographer for a lot of us on the job. He was a pure gentleman, he had a great eye and he was so enthusiastic about the job \u2014 it\u2019s very sad,\u201d said freelance photographer Brendan Gleeson.<\/p>\n

Over his stellar career, Kieran Clancy photographed presidents to paupers and everyone in between. After retiring from the press corps in 2016, he continued working in wedding and commercial photography.<\/p>\n

Recalling one of many fond memories of working alongside him, Noel Gavin said: \u201cI remember a really funny incident involving Kieran during an occasion when the former US President Gerald Ford stopped over at Shannon airport at some unearthly hour, and we were there taking photographs in the airport\u2019s VIP room where they used to bring dignitaries.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"KieranKieran Clancy with former Irish Examiner picture editor Norma Cuddihy and former staff photographer Denis Minihane. Picture: Tony Maxwell<\/p>\n

\u201cKieran was trying to get a better angle on a shot, and there was a glass coffee table in the middle of the room and Kieran decided to sit on it to get a low shot, and the glass cracked to the exact sound of a gunshot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Ford visibly jumped in his chair and all his security guys thought someone was after shooting him \u2014 that could have been the end of Kieran then.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Funeral arrangements will be announced later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tributes have been paid to award-winning Irish press photographer, Kieran Clancy, who sadly passed away following an illness…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,19,17,5599,5,5600],"class_list":{"0":"post-115566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-munster","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-regional"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}