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Colin Ryan (born 2 September 1988) is an Irish hurler. His league and championship career with the Clare senior team lasted ten years from 2007 to 2017.

Born in Newmarket-on-Fergus, County Clare, Ryan first played competitive hurling during his schooling at St. Flannan's College. Here he won an All-Ireland medal in 2005, as well as back-to-back Harty Cup medals. Ryan simultaneously began his club career at juvenile and underage levels with Newmarket-on-Fergus. After earlier winning several county under-21 championship medals, he won a county senior championship medal in 2012.

Ryan made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of sixteen when he joined the Clare minor team. After little success in this grade, he later won an All-Ireland medal with the under-21 team in 2009. By this stage Ryan had joined the Clare senior team, making his debut during the 2007 championship. Over the course of the next ten years, Ryan won one All-Ireland medal and one National Hurling League medal. Having earlier announced that he was taking an extended break from inter-county hurling, Ryan announced his retirement from the game on 6 October 2017.

As a member of the Munster inter-provincial team, Ryan won one Railway Cup medal.

Ryan attended NUI Galway. He played for the university hurling team in the Fitzgibbon Cup, and was part of the side that lost the 2007 final.

Career statistics

Honours

Team

St. Flannan's College

• All-Ireland Colleges' Senior Hurling Championship (1): 2005
• Munster Colleges' Senior Hurling Championship (2): 2004, 2005

Newmarket-on-Fergus

• Clare Senior Hurling Championship (1): 2012

Clare

• All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (1): 2013
• National Hurling League (Division 1B) (1): 2012
• National Hurling League (Division 1A) (1): 2016
• All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship (1): 2009
• Munster Under-21 Hurling Championship (1): 2009

Munster

• Railway Cup (1): 2013

References

1. "Flannan's final flourish". Irish Independent. 15 March 2004. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
2. Larkin, Brendan (14 March 2004). "Flannan's power to Harty history". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
3. O'Flynn, Diarmuid (29 October 2012). "Newmarket end 31 years of hurt". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
4. O'Toole, Fintan (14 September 2009). "Last-gasp O'Donovan makes it a Clare day at Croker". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
5. "Clare win eight-goal thriller". Breaking News. 28 September 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
6. "Colin Ryan: 'We live and die by the standards we set ourselves'". Irish Independent. 21 May 2015. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
7. "Colin Ryan's extended break from inter-county hurling paves way for big soccer quarter-final". Irish Independent. 8 January 2017. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
8. "Colin Ryan becomes second Clare 2013 All Ireland winner to retire this week". Irish Independent. 6 October 2017. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
9. "NUI Galway Students and Alumni Among All-Ireland Senior Hurling Finalists". 2 September 2013. Archived from the original on 23 December 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
10. "Major Clare influence on NUIG Fitzgibbon campaign". The Clare Champion.

• 1988 births
• Living people
• Alumni of the University of Galway
• Clare inter-county hurlers
• Irish schoolteachers
• Munster inter-provincial hurlers
• Newmarket-on-Fergus hurlers
• University of Galway hurlers
• 21st-century Irish sportsmen