Ryan Wylie

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

Club

Wylie has won two County titles with Ballybay, in 2012 and 2022.

County

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

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

  1. ^ "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. ^ Drew Wylie has emerged from lockdown...
  5. ^ '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."
  6. ^ "Ryan Wylie: There's nothing we can do to replace hurt". RTÉ.ie. 28 July 2021.