School Daze: ‘I was sick with terror’

I was a good student always. I studied like mad. Every night of my life I would study for four hours at home, says Francis Brennan

My secondary school was CUS in Leeson Street in Dublin and prior to that I attended the Christian Brothers in Westland Row. I am a Dublin boy, born and bred, I lived in Sandyford for 27 years. My parents moved to Sligo, my brother married a Sligo woman, my sister married in Sligo and John grew up in Sligo so everyone thinks I’m from there, but I’m not!