“I’ve broken both arms. I tore my ACL. I dislocated my ankle. My worst injury was, actually, I had to get a joint removed in my big toe. I still have a pin in it. I didn’t think a toe injury would be that bad, but that sent me off for a year, nearly.” Tony McDonnell, all six foot four of him, is folded into a conference chair overlooking Grand Canal Square, taking me on a tour of his injuries. Today he is a senior executive at HSBC Securities Services. The painful inventory was fortunately not compiled in banking but…

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