Remembering David Farrell

Former Globe columnist, dead at 80.

Dan Kennedy: Farrell epitomized the old-fashioned newspaperman as powerbroker:

... He surely would have been as well-known as fellow Globe staffers such as Marty Nolan, Robert Healy and the late David Nyhan if he had not left the paper more than two decades ago amid a scandal that seems quaint when measured by what has befallen the business in the intervening years. ...

John Farrell remembers his father:

... He was a great teacher and mentor. And although 80 years is a long life, I wish it could have been longer.