Matt Keane shoots the breeze with Nicky O’Regan at his Mayor’s Walk premises.                     | Photos: Noel Browne

Matt Keane shoots the breeze with Nicky O’Regan at his Mayor’s Walk premises. | Photos: Noel Browne


Nicky O’Regan is one of nature’s gentlemen. Born on the Cork Road in April 1958, the only son of the late Mamie and Christy O’Regan, Nicky fulfilled a life-long ambition in 2002 when opening his own bar on Mayor’s Walk.
That he’s made a great success of it, knowing Nicky as I do, is of no great surprise.
“I went so primary school in St Declan’s and secondary school in De La Salle but I left at the age of 14 to work in the Ard Rí Hotel and I remained there for five years,” he began.