Tony Brennan obituary

“The term ‘cricket tragic’ is often heard in Australia. I consider myself to be more of a cricket melodramatic – basically a tragic, but with the occasional bout of euphoria thrown in.” These are not words you might expect to read on an official web page of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). But then the author of those words, my friend Tony Brennan, who has died aged 53 after suffering from cancer, was an unexpected kind of diplomat.A career that took in se