Mike Farrell the boxer

Madam, - I liked Joe Cully's Irishman's Diary of October 2nd about my granduncle, Mike Farrell, the half-blind former jockey …

Madam, - I liked Joe Cully's Irishman's Diary of October 2nd about my granduncle, Mike Farrell, the half-blind former jockey and Canadian professional middleweight boxing champion. Sadly, my favourite story about him wasn't mentioned.

It was well known that he was blind in one eye, but he used to put iodine around his good eye so that his opponents would lash away at the bad one. - Yours, etc,

NEIL FARRELL, Claremont Court, Dublin 11.