Francis Brennan's tips for running the perfect home

We’ve never been home so much  — so it’s perfect timing for Francis Brennan to publish a new book of household tips

Francis Brennan: 'I’ll be keeping the spirits up and hopefully trying to keep others’ up, especially, because people have found it difficult.

It’s seemingly a charmed life that hotelier, home-maker and television personality Francis Brennan maintains  — playing to his strengths after a lifetime of working in public-facing jobs that imbued him with an innate eye for detail, his At Your Service show is a consistent winner for RTE. His series of books, meanwhile, on the making and maintenance of a home are bookshelf staples around the country.

But as with anything else, this has been the result of years of work, learning and consistency, so when the time came around for his latest literary project, he cast his mind to a regular habit that’s been with him for years — maintaining a daily diary.