Brendan Griffin

Brendan Griffin was born in Cork city on 14 March 1982, the starting point for a political life that later carried him into Kerry and national offices. That much is clear. What is less certain is whether the boy who left Cork for Galway already knew he would spend his adult years arguing for other people, or whether he simply followed the shape of the work until it became his own. Either way, the birthplace remains the smallest visible fact and the one that makes the rest possible.