‘Iron Man’ Mick targeted by trickster thieves

A Kerryman whose battle to win one of the country’s most gruelling cycle races in the 1950s became the stuff of legend has been the victim of an apparent burglary.

Mick Murphy, 78, who lives in very basic conditions, had a substantial sum of money stolen from him on Easter Sunday.

Nicknamed “Iron Man”, his feats of valour in the 1958 Rás Tailteann etched his name into cycling folklore.