Rest in Peace - Paul Tansey

Its not so long since we celebrated twenty five years since we all started out in an exciting new venture that was the relaunch of The Sunday Tribune in 1983. It was a small group. Paul Tansey was there that night as one of the original team. It is so sad that just 6 months later he left us. Playing tennis on a Sunday morning. But not yet 60, he was way too young. His removal to Monkstown church and the funeral mass were a who's who of media, economics and politics in Ireland both now and then.

His last column in the Irish Times, was a gentle throw-back to those columns in the eighies when he warned the government about the need to cut public expenditure. He was applauding the early budget and hoping for appropriate action.

Many of his friends in the media have written many true things about him. I've collected up the links of just some of these below:

Ken O'Brien, Finance Magazine
Obituary - Irish Times
Ciaran McGonigal, Irish Times letter
Shane Ross, Sunday Independent
Antoin Murphy, Sunday Business Post
Kevin Myers, Irish Independent
John Spain, Irish Independent

On November 28th we had a larger group assemble in The Unicorn (the same restaurant). It was a larger group of friends and colleagues from those Tribune days. Many didn't recognise me - glasses and no beard! Pauls wife Olivia and his daughter Emily were there. Emily said a few words - she was probably less than 2 when Paul left the Tribune! She was so like him in so many ways. A difficult time, but a night to remember him by. May he rest in peace.