Richard Egan, the colourful and vigorous co-founder of EMC, went into a linen cupboard of his home at the Four Seasons condominiums on Boylston Street, Boston, and shot himself in the head with a shotgun on Friday, ending his fight against terminal lung cancer.

 As well as bringing EMC to Cork - I've heard some of the colourful stories about him - he was once US Ambassador to Ireland.  Rest in peace.