Former Coronation Street actor Charlie Lawson has led tributes to one-time co-star Johnny Briggs - known to millions as ladies' man Mike Baldwin.
Enniskillen-born star Lawson, who played Jim McDonald in the long-running ITV soap, described Briggs, who was a fixture on the cobbles for 30 years and one of its most famous faces, as a "cheeky wee character".
Briggs' family said he had died peacefully after a long illness. He was aged 85.
His storylines included an affair, in the early 1980s, that gripped the nation.
Deirdre (Anne Kirkbride) and Mike had an illicit relationship two years into her marriage to Ken Barlow (William Roache), but she decided to stay with her husband.