The co-owner with his brother, John, of Kenmare’s five-star Park Hotel knows how to treat people and how to be treated. He has put his wisdom into a book and Claire O’Sullivan picked out some gems. FRANCIS BRENNAN isn’t a snob. Rather, with his endearing mannerisms, irresistibly quaint humour and legendary experience of the hospitality industry, the [...]

He is one of RTE's best-loved faces. Francis Brennan tells Barry Egan how he talks to his Aga cooker, about how his bedroom is "frightening", his idyllic childhood, his 91-year-old mother and his father's death in 1988. Why am I not surprised? Francis Brennan loves to dance. Hearing this is like having Bob Dylan say [...]