Early and Personal Life
Barry O'Callaghan was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland and educated at Clongowes, a Jesuit-run secondary boarding school. He was captain of the school's senior cup rugby team and later, he played rugby for Trinity College Dublin where he studied law in the late 1980s. O'Callaghan met his wife, Geraldine McGeough at Trinity College. They have three daughters.
According to a quote in the Irish Independent O'Callaghan once described himself as
| “ | ...a professional middle-class boy, likely to do well in his Leaving Cert". He added that he only ended up in investment banking because he didn't know what to do afterwards but knew that it definitely wasn't law.
We did the milk round, where all these banks show up on campus. You'd listen to some boring fart for half-an-hour and then there was a free bar. I didn't even know what an investment bank was. A bank, to me, was a place where you get a mortgage and traveller's cheques. |
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