Kerry native believed to be Ireland's oldest man dies at 108

Michael lived through the Spanish Flu, the Irish Civil War, two world wars, and the Covid-19 pandemic

Ireland's oldest man Michael O'Connor, 107 years, from Muckross, Killarney, received his second dose of the vaccine against Covid-19 last year. Picture: Valerie O'Sullivan. 

Michael O' Connor, believed to be the oldest man in Kerry, has died at the age of 108. 

Originally from Glencar in South Kerry, where he was born in 1913, Michael lived at his home in Muckross before recently moving into the Kenmare Community Hospital, where he passed away this morning.