Detiled biography of Paddy Mayne. Irish rugby union player, lawyer, boxer, and soldier. Lieutenant Colonel Robert Blair Mayne, DSO & Three Bars (11 January – 14 December ), better known as Paddy Mayne, was a British Army officer from Newtownards, capped for Ireland and the British and Irish Lions at rugby union, lawyer, amateur boxer, and a founding member of the Special Air Service.