The day I tied the shoelaces of The Greatest
The Alltech founder has two personal memories of the real Muhammad Ali
I was working for Irish Distillers, the maker of Jameson, and we were designing the process for the Midleton Distillery when I first got the chance to see Muhammad Ali. He was coming to fight in Ireland and needed a sponsor so Jameson stepped up.
On a cold night in Croke Park in 1972, my brother Lorcan and I went to the fight. While our seats were quite far back, not all the ...