Growing up in Dublin, Nick Keegan wanted to be in the Irish Defence Forces, just like his father. It was what he’d planned to do when he finished secondary school, but there was a snag. “I was one of the unlucky guys who left school and then shortly after we went into the financial crisis so public sector recruitment was essentially stopped,” he tells The Currency. “You had 5,000 people applying for 20 positions in the officer cadets in the Defence Forces. You could only apply once a year and the years were going by, I was kind of wasting…

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