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Echo Boy is back!

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  • 21-07-2005 1:19am
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    Dizzyblabla
    Registered Users Posts: 1,440 ✭✭✭


    I was just listening to the radio there and they said that they've put the Echo Boy back, it was damaged in 2001, did it really take them 4 years to repair?? Apparently they've put it on Patrick Street now, will be nice to see him back again though!


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    Dimitri
    Registered Users Posts: 641 ✭✭✭Dimitri


    About time too the echo is a cork institution and the echo boy statue was part of our heritage, shame its been away for so long. It's a pity there are so few people selling the echo on the streets of cork now, is there any left except the guy on oliver pluncket street by the post office?


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    sound_wave
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    theres a few lads that sell on Christy Ring bridge.


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    LilMrsDahamsta
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    What about yer man whose usually up by Oasis/Barretts Shoes? He's an institution! Y'can't have missed him all these years?


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    rymus
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    a welcome return for the echo boy.. I've missed him those times I wanted someone to talk to whilst polluted.


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    Dimitri
    Registered Users Posts: 641 ✭✭✭Dimitri


    LilMsMelodrama wrote:
    What about yer man whose usually up by Oasis/Barretts Shoes? He's an institution! Y'can't have missed him all these years?
    Are yousure he's an echo man i thought he only sold the broadsheets. Guess i should read the paper more often!


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    gaf1983
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    I've only been in Cork about 3 times but I remember there was a guy who sat outside one of the main post offices in town shouting "Echo....Echo......Echo" in a kind of really slow manner. Is he the guy ye're talking about?


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    Dimitri
    Registered Users Posts: 641 ✭✭✭Dimitri


    gaf1983 wrote:
    I've only been in Cork about 3 times but I remember there was a guy who sat outside one of the main post offices in town shouting "Echo....Echo......Echo" in a kind of really slow manner. Is he the guy ye're talking about?
    He's one of the last echo men but its the statue of an echo boy that the op is talkin about.


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    LilMrsDahamsta
    Registered Users Posts: 451 ✭✭LilMrsDahamsta


    Dimitri wrote:
    Are yousure he's an echo man i thought he only sold the broadsheets. Guess i should read the paper more often!

    Pfff... :confused: He sells papers; that's about all I know for certain. I get mine up in the college 'cause it's cheaper , so I'm not sure exactly which ones he sells tbh.


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    segaBOY
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    Tut tut my organisation won't have this for much longer http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=286412

    *Get the semtex*


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    D-Generate
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    My montestory teachers husband was the artist that made him or whatever the art term is for it, sculpting perhaps! Anyhew I remember seeing it as wire mesh and all the work being done on it but thats about 16 years ago now. The Echo-Boy is almost legal age to vote!


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    Femelade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭Femelade


    ya i think i saw him there by jean scene in patricks street. i didnt notice he had gone, i just rememember the other day thinking..wasnt that statue over there somewhere??...


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    Webmonkey
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    gaf1983 wrote:
    I've only been in Cork about 3 times but I remember there was a guy who sat outside one of the main post offices in town shouting "Echo....Echo......Echo" in a kind of really slow manner. Is he the guy ye're talking about?
    I've only being in cork a few times but i remember this guy going around shouting echo echoo top of his voice outside a postoffice. Is that the guy you talking about


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    Femelade
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    Webmonkey wrote:
    I've only being in cork a few times but i remember this guy going around shouting echo echoo top of his voice outside a postoffice. Is that the guy you talking about


    no that guy is tilll there,
    the echo boy is a statue of a wee boy with a stack of papers by his feet.
    the echo boy


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