Name: Mary Mangan.

Title: Managing director, Buy and Sell Net plc.

Significant others: Philip and our daughter Rebecca.

School: Convent of Mercy, Longford.

University: UCD (Chemistry & Maths).

Home: Ballymore Eustace.

Most important life event: Realising I wasn't cut out for industrial chemistry and moving into information technology.

Biggest business break: Joining IBM in 1983.

Biggest business mistake: Not getting involved in the Internet world before 1998.

Time of getting up: 6 a.m.

Time of finishing work: Varies.

Favourite breakfast Sunday mornings: Freshly squeezed juice, bacon, egg, tomato, Clonakilty pudding and the newspapers - in bed of course.

Exercise: Horse-riding.

Holidays: Portugal.

Favourite TV programme: Who wants to be a millionaire? - I do!

Favourite radio programme: Playback Radio 1 - for what's happening in the real world.

Car: Mercedes.

Commuting time: One hour minimum off-peak, and at peak - don't ask.

Favourite tipple: Wine: white - dry, and well chilled; red - full-bodied with lots of depth.

Favourite pub: The Hamlet, Johnstown Bridge - great pub, great people.

Favourite restaurant: Our haunt - the Ballymore Inn.

Person I most admire: Philip - he puts up with me after all.

Dying words: "Glad I didn't miss it".