Brendan O'Connor: The Cork broadcaster on disability services in Ireland and finding his true voice

After a disastrous start to their interview, Brendan O’Connor talks with Donal O’Keeffe about his new career in radio and why he wouldn’t be from any other place but Cork

Brendan O'Connor: took the presenters' chair vacated by the passing of Marian Finucane. Picture: Bríd O'Donovan

On the phone, Brendan O’Connor swears quietly. He is waiting in Sophie’s restaurant in the Dean in Dublin, and meanwhile in the Dean in Cork it has slowly dawned on his hapless interviewer that there is more than one Dean. 

As stupid mistakes go, it’s an absolute doozy, and it’s one hundred percent the interviewer’s fault.