Ciarán O’Leary was born in Dublin, but he remembers little of his first years in the city. One of his earliest memories is that of a moving truck arriving, and his bike being the last thing that was put into it. “The logic being that when it opens up in Germany, it was the first back out again,” he tells The Currency. The O’Learys had moved to the continent in the early 1980s because of his father’s job. At the time, the late Barry O’Leary was a “very simple civil servant”. But towards the end of his career, he would…

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