Jarlath Burns Interview: For the good of the game

This is the principal’s office but not as you know it or him.

You may think you have Jarlath Burns sussed, categorised, summed up. Croke Park man. Committee man. Future presidential material. Gaeilgeoir. Catholic. Fíor Gael.

But here he is now in this very room trying to recreate the sound of U2’s rhythm section and the intro of ‘MOFO’ from what he believes was a criminally-underrated Pop album. A little bit later he’s momentarily bouncing on his toes — without going Tom Cruise on it, more like Bono himself — to the thought and intro of ‘Elevation’.