Francis Brennan: 'People ask me if I get sad passing the hotel but I'm still nearby'

Home Editor Eve Kelliher talks to the hotelier, author and designer about interiors, travel and happy spaces

Hotelier, author, television presenter and homeware and interiors designer Francis Brennan.

A conversation with Francis Brennan is like having a fun, fabulous natter with your best friend — there’s a surreal serendipity about it.

Perhaps it’s because we’re chatting to one another in Kerry, albeit at either end of the phone, one in Kenmare from his luxury apartment on the grounds of the hotel he ran for over four decades and the other from Killarney.