Last things first. Harry Meyer is happy to claim some responsibility for Jedward - the wise-cracking Eurovision twins. Until Leo Varadkar began attracting attention, they were probably the most famous products of Harry s old school.
The retired principal of King s Hospital recalls that the brothers more properly known as John and Edward Grimes arrived on campus just as he was departing. He had the honour of interviewing them and their parents as they signed up to enrol but he then had no further professional dealings with them. A wonderful pair, he chuckles, having encountered them in action at functions such as school prize-givings which he attended after his departure from the headmaster s office in 2003. Among the many hundreds of students who passed through his tutelage, young Varadkar also stands out.