Early Life
Patrick Collison was born to Lily and Denis Collison in 1988. The oldest of three children (two younger brothers, John and Tommy), Collison took his first computer course when he was eight years old at the University of Limerick and began learning to program computers at the age of ten.
Collison was educated in Gaelscoil Aonach Urmhumhan, Nenagh, before attending Castletroy College in Castletroy, County Limerick.
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