Ryan Wylie

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Ryan Wylie
Born1994 (age 2829)
Relatives Brent Wylie (brother)
Drew Wylie (brother)
Association football career
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
?-present Ballybay Pearse Brothers
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ryan Wylie (born 1994) [1] is a Gaelic footballer who plays for Ballybay Pearse Brothers (where his brothers Brent and Drew play with him), UCD and at senior level for the Monaghan county team. [2] He took over as captain of Monaghan in 2020 [3] and was captaining Monaghan in 2020 when COVID-19 came along. [1] He was captaining them again in 2021 when the community numbed with the under-20 car crash. [4]

Biography

He is a brother of Drew. [5] He works as Radiographer in the Mater Hospital and he comes from a Protestant family, [6] as Cavan midfielder Gearoit McKiernan cruelly reminded them in the 2015 Dr McKenna Cup. This garnered an instant red card for McKiernan from Sean Hurson over that, then a ban for bad language over what is believed to be a first, a red card used for racist or sectarian abuse. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Ryan Wylie finds the real meaning of team on the front line". The Irish Times. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
  2. "My Club: Ryan Wylie — Ballybay Pearse Brothers". 10 December 2015.
  3. "Wylie to captain 36-man Monaghan squad for 2020". Hogan Stand. 15 December 2019.
  4. "Ryan Wylie: There's nothing we can do to replace hurt". RTÉ.ie . 28 July 2021.
  5. Drew Wylie has emerged from lockdown...
  6. '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."
  7. "McKiernan apologises and accepts ban". BBC Sport.