Lord Mayor leads tributes after former ‘Echo Boy’ Michael O’Regan dies

Circulation manager with The Echo and the Irish Examiner, Sean Murphy, said "Cork has lost a piece of its history"

Former 'Echo Boy' Michael O'Regan was described as a “legend and institution”, and “part of the fabric of the city”. File picture: Clare Keogh

The Lord Mayor of Cork has led tributes to the legendary former ‘Echo Boy’, Michael O’Regan, who died on Tuesday.

Mr O’Regan, who once boasted that he had sold well over one million copies of the Evening Echo newspaper on the streets of Cork in a career spanning over half a century until his retirement a few years ago, was described as a “legend and institution”, and “part of the fabric of the city”.