Iron Man’s sporting life littered with epic feats

When it is suggested to the ‘Iron Man’ that he must have been the toughest man in Ireland in his day, he muses for a couple seconds and then goes one better.

“Maybe in the world,” he retorts, without raising an eyebrow.

“I’m afraid of nobody,” says the famous sportsman Mick Murphy and he means it. He sits defiantly in his modest home where he was conned out of a substantial amount of cash by a silver-tongued shyster, less than two weeks ago. And, though now a quite stiff 78-year-old, he’s still not a man to be trifled with.