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''What forking trouble are you in now?'' Mammy asked. She opened the letter and I waited.
''It''s nothing, just the result of your check-up.'' There was a pause and then she did an ''uh-oh''.
''What? What is it?''
''It''s nothing really . . . but you''re colour-blind.''
Nothing? Nothing? I was aghast.
''But that could be dangerous. I mean, when I start to drive how will I be able to tell traffic lights?''
''I''ll give you a hint, son, the red one is on the forking top.''
Before he became the nation''s favourite Mammy, Brendan O''Carroll was known simply as Brendan.
The youngest of ten children from a poor family in Dublin, his father died when he was just nine years old. Leaving school at the mere age of 12, Brendan began what would become a long and varied working life; he would go on to be a waiter, a publican, a window cleaner an
