Ryan Wylie
Ryan Wylie 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.[1] He took over as captain of Monaghan in 2020[2] and was captaining Monaghan in 2020 when COVID-19 came along.[3] He was captaining them again in 2021 when the community numbed with the under-20 car crash.[4]
He is a brother of Drew.[5] He works as Radiographer in the Mater Hospital and they come from a Protestant family,[6] as Cavan midfielder Gearoit McKiernan cruelly reminded them in the 2015 Dr McKenna Cup, 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]
References
- "My Club: Ryan Wylie — Ballybay Pearse Brothers". 10 December 2015.
- "Wylie to captain 36-man Monaghan squad for 2020". Hogan Stand. 15 December 2019.
- "Ryan Wylie finds the real meaning of team on the front line". The Irish Times. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
- "Ryan Wylie: There's nothing we can do to replace hurt". RTÉ.ie. 28 July 2021.
- 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."
- "McKiernan apologises and accepts ban". BBC Sport.