John Daly was born in Dublin on the day JFK was shot, as good an alibi as you'll get.

Attended Clongowes Wood College (OC 1982 [his brother Conor OC 1985]), Dublin City University, University of Oxford (Keble College) and the Institute of Art & Law.

John has worked as a lecturer in a number of third level institutions including the National College of Art & Design and at the Open University; he also spent many years as an academic editor.

The visual arts have always played a significant part in his life, and John has been collecting artworks since age 16. He turned his hobby into his full-time profession when he founded the contemporary art gallery Hillsboro Fine Art in 1995. John has just written a monograph on German artist Karl Weschke (1925-2005) which will appear in June 2025.

He is an enthusiastic tennis and table tennis player and consumes far too much wine.

John is married to Yandan Sun and their son Daniel (age 10) is already considering CWC for his second level education believing it to be a branch of Hogwarts.