Life after the Park Hotel and on set with John and Francis Brennan for At Your Service

From life after the Park to learning to relax, Vickie Maye chats to John and Francis Brennan as she goes behind the scenes on the latest series of At Your Service

John and Francis Brennan at Barnahown, Mitchelstown, Cork. The brothers say they have no regrets about stepping away from the Park Hotel. Picture: Dan Linehan

It is John and Francis Brennan’s fourth time arriving at Barnahown in Mitchelstown. Each time, they bound out of their car with more enthusiasm than the last. Francis takes a dramatic pause, looks at the property, puts his blazer on and, as though talking to himself, says, ‘I can’t wait to see what she’s done with the place.’

Really, though, he’s talking to the cameras, two of them pointing at him to capture different angles. And by default, he’s talking to us, his audience.