Life Lessons: New book goes behind the public image of well-known faces

A judge, garda commissioner and abbot can surprise you in private, says Catherine Shanahan

Life Lessons: New book goes behind the public image of well-known faces

FORMER Supreme Court judge Catherine McGuinness was “much too cheeky” in school; former garda commissioner Pat Byrne yearned to be a train driver; and matchmaker Willie Daly remembers when back-to-front trousers kept newly-wed men in check in the marital bed.

Such are the nuggets in Life Lessons, a new book by Rita de Brún. McGuinness and Byrne are just two of the 21 well-known faces who reveal their ‘life lessons’ to her.

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