Ryan Wylie
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sport | Gaelic football | ||
| Position | Corner back | ||
| Born | 12 March 1994 | ||
| Occupation | Radiographer | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
? – Present | Ballybay Pearse Brothers | ||
| Club titles | |||
| Monaghan titles | 2 | ||
| Colleges(s) | |||
| Years | College | ||
2012 - 2016 | UCD | ||
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | ||
2014 – present | Monaghan county team | ||
| Inter-county titles | |||
| Ulster titles | 1 | ||
Ryan Wylie (born 1994)[1] is a Gaelic footballer who plays for Ballybay Pearse Brothers and the Monaghan county team.[2] He took over as captain of Monaghan in 2020[3] and captained them again in 2021.
Career
[edit]Club
[edit]Wylie has won two County titles with Ballybay, in 2012 and 2022.
County
[edit]Wylie was part of the team that won the 2015 Ulster Senior Football Championship. He was also part of the team that reached the All Ireland semi final in 2018, a first appearance at this stage of the competition since 1988.
Personal life
[edit]His brother Drew is also a Gaelic footballer with Ballybay and Monaghan.[4]
He works as Radiographer in the Mater Hospital and comes from a Protestant family.[5]
He was captain of Monaghan when, in July 2021, the community was numbed following the tragic death of Under-20s captain Brendán Óg Duffy in a car crash on his way home from his team's Ulster semi final defeat of Donegal.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Ryan Wylie finds the real meaning of team on the front line". The Irish Times. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
- ^ "My Club: Ryan Wylie — Ballybay Pearse Brothers". 10 December 2015.
- ^ "Wylie to captain 36-man Monaghan squad for 2020". Hogan Stand. 15 December 2019.
- ^ Drew Wylie has emerged from lockdown...
- ^ 'There were grown men there with tears in their eyes' — Drew Wylie reflects on 2018 26 January 2019 Declan Bogue "'There is not as many players working in hard labour, we have a lot of students and teacher and office workers. Ryan is a Radiographer in the Mater Hospital and he probably works long hours and whatnot', says (Drew) Wylie."
- ^ "Ryan Wylie: There's nothing we can do to replace hurt". RTÉ.ie. 28 July 2021.