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Early Life
Ailish Ryan was born in Kilkenny in 1981. She is the youngest of Tom and Breege Ryan's four children, and has brothers Padraig, Eoghain and sister Aoife. The Ryan family spent their early years in Kilkenny, and moved to Galway in 1995.

Education
Ailish has a Masters in fire safety engineering from Ulster University and a BE in electronic and computer engineering from NUI Galway.

Career
Ailish Ryan is the director of Mocks.ie with her brother Eoghain (used by 20% of Leaving Certificate and 15% of Junior Certificate students), and more recently iRevise.com (covering GCSE and A-Levels for England and Wales). She is also a director of Ryan and Associates, has worked as a senior fire engineer for a large fire safety engineering practice.

Mocks.ie started with an online maths programme in 2009, the company then developed new products, abandoned old ones and has dramatically changed its revenue model.

Awards
Mocks.ie was supported by Enterprise Ireland which identified it as a high-potential start-up in 2014.