Tributes paid after demise of former Irish Examiner photographer Kieran Clancy

Tributes have been paid to award-winning Irish press photographer Kieran Clancy, who sadly handed away following an sickness on Friday.

Originally from Mayorstone, on the outskirts of the Treaty City, Clancy labored for varied information and public relations businesses. and was regarded by many as one in all Ireland’s premier press and business photographers.

He had battled with Parkinson’s illness for plenty of years and handed away surrounded by household at a nursing house in Co Clare.

Clancy loved a fruitful profession as a contract photojournalist after he labored for twenty years as a employees photographer with the Cork Examiner, later, the Irish Examiner, based mostly in Limerick and protecting information, sport and leisure tales throughout the mid-west area.

He was beforehand President of the Press Photographers Association of Ireland (IPPA), and in 2021, he was awarded with an Honorary Membership of the affiliation, in recognition of his “outstanding contribution” to the affiliation and press images in Ireland.

“He had a great eye for a photograph and the story being told in the image,” mentioned Clancy’s former colleague and pal, Noel Gavin, previously Irish Daily Star, and the Press 22 photographic company.

“He was very competitive, we all were, but Kieran was stealthy, he would always get the best photo, the best angle, and he did it quietly.”

“He was a great credit to his Dad, Seán, who was so long in the photograph business before him.”

Legendary Limerick photographer, Owen “Southie” South additionally paid tribute: “Kieran was a lovely man, he was great photographer with the Examiner working in Limerick, his death is very sad.”

“He was a great colleague, a great guy, and he was meticulous with every job that he did — he always did it right.”

Liam Burke, who labored alongside Clancy for many years in Limerick, mentioned: “Kieran was a wonderful award winning photographer, he was a friend to everybody.”

Clancy’s late father Seán Clancy labored in Limerick as mid-west regional photojournalist for the Irish Independent, and, his late brother, Kevin Clancy, was considered a pioneering press photographer and was one of many first photographers nationally who transitioned from photographic movie rolls to the digital format.

“He 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, it’s very sad,” mentioned freelance photographer Brendan Gleeson.

Kieran Clancy photographed presidents to paupers and all in between over his stellar profession. After his retirement from the press corps in 2016 he continued within the subject of wedding ceremony images and business markings.

Recalling one in all many fond reminiscences of working alongside Clancy, Noel Gavin, mentioned: “I 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’s VIP room where they used to bring dignitaries.”

“Kieran 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.”

“President Ford visibly jumped in his chair and all his security guys thought someone was after shooting him, and that could have been the end of Kieran then.”

Funeral preparations can be introduced later.