Retired Metropole plumber on Cork hotel life: 'I doubt you could find the likes of it anywhere else'

Sitting down with the Irish Examiner, John Keogh, who was a plumber on the maintenance team at the Metropole Hotel, reminisced on serving his time as a tradesman in Cork and the many famous faces he encountered

John Keogh is one of four tradesmen named in a note hidden behind wallpaper at the Metropole Hotel in 1969, uncovered more than 50 years later. Picture: Chani Anderson.

One of the men behind the mystery of the note dated 1969 found in the walls of the Metropole Hotel has reminisced on his time working in Cork in the 1960s and 1970s.

John Keogh from Blackpool on Cork’s northside was one of the four tradesmen who worked at the hotel in the 1960s who signed a note on a piece of wallpaper and hid it in the wall of the hotel more than half a century ago.