“I am a marketing person’s dream, because I interest everybody,” says Francis Brennan over tea in the Merrion Hotel in Dublin. Although he doesn’t drink alcohol, he is quick to offer his interviewer a gin and tonic, but tea will do fine. He says advertisers seem aware of his star-power, and he receives lots of offers, which he routinely declines, as he is anxious not to undermine the Francis Brennan: The Collection luxury brand he has with Dunnes Stores. I will keep going forever and you will never know I hadn’t a clue who you were.”Francis Brennan: a 'radio man', by his own reckoningAs one of Ireland’s most famously single people, does Francis Brennan ever get lonely? In other words, Francis Brennan seems to be exactly who you think Francis Brennan is, and he’s made a career of being himself, and has a whale of a time doing so.

Source: Irish Examiner October 02, 2021 04:52 UTC