Ronan Murphy fell in love with mountaineering over a decade ago in the last financial crash. He was at the time, he recalls, “slinging corporate bonds” for investment bank Merrill Lynch as a junior trader.  Murphy had joined the investment bank from CitiGroup after college in UCD and school in St Mary’s College in Rathmines. It was a frenetic time to be on a bonds desk as the world’s biggest banks came to the brink of toppling and in some cases fell. As 2008 drew to a close Bank of America stepped in to buy Merrill Lynch on the same…

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