Kieran Shannon: Jarlath Burns will bring new school of thought to GAA presidency

Burns has shown he is willing to lead. To take a stance. To put his head above the parapet. To speak his mind and for the association

BEAUTIFUL DAY: Jarlath Burns stands with his sister Bronwin Traynor as he blows kisses to his mother Helen Burns and sister Helena Burns on a call after he was voted as the GAA president elect at the GAA Annual Congress at Croke Park. Pic: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

He won’t be your normal run-of-the-mill GAA president, just as he hasn’t been your usual school principal.

Back in 2015, a few days before Kieran McGeeney’s first championship game as Armagh manager, this column took an exit off one of the many roundabouts on the outskirts of Newry to minutes later be walking the corridors of St Paul’s High School, Bessbrook, and into the príomhoide’s office.