John Burke is Fatti's dad. He is a retired primary school teacher and was Teaching Principal of Passage East National School from 1980 to 2009. He has taught all age groups during his career, but focused most of his teaching on the older classes.

He has always had a special interest in environmental studies and local history. He is a board member of Waterford Teacher's Education Centre and Secretary of Barony of Gaultier Historical Society.

He has been an office holder with Waterford GAA and Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann. He was not born in the Middle Stone Age, New Stone Age or even the Iron Age (despite what Fatti says), but was in fact born in 1946. He lives in Waterford.