[1] Brennan received a National Press Award for investigative reporting while at the newspaper.
[2] Brennan became working as the Irish correspondent for The Hollywood Reporter while still living in Ireland.
[1] He was later promoted as a full reporter and covered international television and U.S. domestic syndication news.
[1] In 2007, Brennan published his book, Emeralds in Tinseltown: The Irish in Hollywood, which he co-published with his wife, Bernadette.
[1][2] Brennan died of cancer on July 2, 2009, at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 57.