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== Early life == Ryan was born at [[Limerick Junction railway station|Limerick Junction]], County Tipperary on 2 February 1936; his father was a train driver. Around 1945 the family moved to [[Thurles]] in the same county, and he attended the [[Thurles CBS|Christian Brothers school]] there.<ref name="DIB">{{Cite web |last=Clavin |first=Terry |date=June 2016 |title=Ryan, Tony (Thomas Anthony) |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/ryan-tony-thomas-anthony-a9851 |access-date=2022-12-23 |website=Dictionary of Irish Biography |language=en |doi=10.3318/dib.009851.v1}}</ref> His hopes of attending university were ended by the death of his father, and instead he joined [[Aer Lingus]] as a dispatch clerk, and was selected as a management trainee.<ref name="Guardian obituary" />
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