Make of it what you will . . .

Ronan Ryan went to New York in 1990 when he was sixteen.  He went on to become a major player in the development of High Frequency Trading in the American stock markets.  Later he also became a leading figure in the movement to bring it to back to earth and to clean up the various scams and abuses that in the meantime had become associated with it.

He returned home to Dublin for Christmas 2011, something that Michael Lewis describes in his 2014 book Flash Boys:

‘He felt no attachment to the place.  “I don’t belong there at all,’ he said.  “There’s fucking fat kids everywhere.  When I was growing up there was no fat kids.  It’s lost its charm.”