Richard Tierney never set out to run Ireland’s national festival, and his route to the role was neither linear nor planned. His working life began in 1988, following what he describes as a short and unsuccessful encounter with college.  “I had a couple of days of college, didn’t fancy it,” he says.  Instead, he joined a marketing agency, where he learned how organisations actually function from the inside. “I sort of went everywhere from doing the post, to writing, to being client service director,” he says. It was a formative education, and it also gave him early exposure to sectors…

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