Editing Tony Ryan (section)

== Personal life ==
Ryan married his childhood sweetheart, Mairéad, in 1958 and they had three sons together. The couple separated while the boys were young but they were not divorced.<ref name="Hourican">{{Cite web |last=Hourican |first=Emily |date=10 July 2011 |title=Beauty and bounty at Renaissance prince Tony Ryan's court |url=https://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/beauty-and-bounty-at-renaissance-prince-tony-ryans-court-26750413.html |access-date=2022-12-23 |website=independent.ie |language=en}}</ref>

Ryan then began a series of affairs with well-connected women, beginning in the mid-1980s with [[Miranda Guinness, Countess of Iveagh|Lady Miranda Guinness]], who had earlier separated from her husband [[Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh]].<ref name="Hourican" /> Miranda tutored him in matters such as art collecting, fine wines, interior decoration and formal entertaining, and they worked together on redesigning the interior of a [[Georgian architecture|Georgian]] house which Ryan had bought in [[Pelham Place, London|Pelham Place]], South Kensington, London.<ref name="Loving">{{Cite web |date=7 September 2013 |title='Somehow he managed to leave them still loving him anyway' |url=https://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/somehow-he-managed-to-leave-them-still-loving-him-anyway-29559967.html |access-date=2022-12-23 |website=Independent.ie |language=en}}</ref> The relationship ended around 1991 but they remained close friends.<ref name="Loving" />

Later relationships included the Irish fashion designer [[Louise Kennedy]], and the interior designer Tiggy Butler, who oversaw the redesigns at two of Ryan's properties: [[Lyons Demesne]] (County Kildare) and [[Castleton Farm]] (Lexington, Kentucky). He spent more than €100{{Nbsp}}million on the restoration of Lyons Demesne.<ref name="Will"/> His last partner, up to the time of his death, was Martine Head, daughter of French horse trainer and breeder [[Alec Head]]; together they shared a passion for horse-racing.<ref name="Loving" /><ref name="Hourican" />

Ryan was a [[tax exile]] who lived in [[Monte Carlo]],<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/business/04ryan.html |title=Tony Ryan, Who Founded Discount Airline, Dies at 71 |publisher=Bloomberg News |access-date=2018-10-18|language=en}}</ref> but also owned a [[stud farm]] near his home in Dolla, [[County Tipperary]].<ref name="Wizard">{{Cite news |date=2016-07-15 |title=Tony Ryan: wizard of the skies |language=en |work=Royal Irish Academy |url=https://www.ria.ie/news/tony-ryan-wizard-skies |access-date=2018-10-18}}</ref> He was the 7th wealthiest individual from Ireland in the [[Sunday Times Rich List 2007]] with over €1.5bn (£1bn).<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/declan-and-shane-ryan-and-family-s02k27g2hrk|title=Declan and Shane Ryan and family|date=2008-04-27|newspaper=[[The Sunday Times]] |access-date=2018-10-18|language=en|issn=0956-1382}}</ref>