Larry Mullen Jr. final time, to U2 at a farewell concert for Dik Evans, becoming the 4-piece band they are today. Mullen left school in 1978, having taken his Intermediate Certificate exams. The school offered him the chance to complete his Leaving Certificate exams. He and his sister Cecilia worked for an American company in Dublin, involved in oil exploration off the coast of Ireland. Mullen worked there for a year in the purchasing department, with the prospect of becoming a computer programmer in their geology section. In 2016, "Rolling Stone" ranked Mullen the 96th-greatest drummer of all time. In the early days
John Kernan Mullen John Kernan Mullen John Kernan Mullen (11 June 1847 – 9 August 1929) was an Irish-American businessman and philanthropist. Mullen was born to Denis Mullen (1806–86) and Ellen Mulray (1816–88) in Ballinasloe, County Galway in June 1847. John had an older brother Patrick (born 1844), as well as younger siblings Ella (born 1849), Denis (born 1850), Kate (born 1853) and another who didn't survive. During the 1820s and 1830s, John's father Denis and uncle Thomas Mullen, "crafted barrels for the mills" of Ballinasloe, which had three oatmeal mills, two breweries and a flour mill. However, the advent of the Great