School Daze with Tracey Ryan: 'I thought I was invincible!'

Tracey Ryan of Codex Beauty on how a love of learning led her to found one of Ireland's most successful beauty lines

Tracey Ryan is Managing Director and Master Formulator of Codex Beauty Europe.

I went to school in the Presentation Convent both for primary and secondary school at home in Thurles, Co. Tipperary.

I loved learning and really enjoyed school. I have always been curious. My mother would buy the schoolbooks during the summer and I would have them read cover to cover before school started in September. I suppose that might have been one of the reasons I couldn’t keep quiet in class. I was a bit of a messer in school, but I balanced that with working hard and getting involved with lots of activities like gymnastics and drama.