| Code: | Hurling |
| Sport: | Hurling |
| Colin Ryan | |
| Fullname: | Colin Ryan |
| Feet: | 5 |
| Inches: | 11 |
| Nickname: | Colly |
| Occupation: | Secondary school teacher |
| County: | Clare |
| Province: | Munster |
| Club: | Newmarket-on-Fergus |
| Clposition: | Full Forward |
| Clubs: | Newmarket-on-Fergus |
| Clyears: | 2005-present |
| Clcounty: | 1 |
| Counties: | Clare |
| Icposition: | Left wing-forward |
| Icyears: | 2007-2017 |
| Icapps(Points): | 25 (0-126) |
| Icprovince: | 0 |
| Icallireland: | 1 |
| Allstars: | 0 |
| Nhl: | 1 |
| Icupdate: | 14:33, 7 October 2017 |
| Birth Date: | 1988 9, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Newmarket-on-Fergus, County Clare, Ireland |
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.[1] [2] 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.[3]
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.[4] 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.[5] [6] 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.[7] [8]
As a member of the Munster inter-provincial team, Ryan won one Railway Cup medal.
Ryan attended NUI Galway.[9] He played for the university hurling team in the Fitzgibbon Cup, and was part of the side that lost the 2007 final.[10]
| Team | Year | National League | Munster | All-Ireland | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | |||
| Clare | 2007 | Division 1A | 0 | 0-00 | 1 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 1 | 0-00 | |
| 2008 | Division 1B | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | ||
| 2009 | Division 1 | 6 | 1-24 | 1 | 0-12 | 1 | 0-00 | 8 | 1-36 | ||
| 2010 | Division 2 | 8 | 5-36 | 1 | 0-01 | 1 | 0-03 | 10 | 5-40 | ||
| 2011 | 7 | 3-23 | 1 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 8 | 3-23 | |||
| 2012 | Division 1B | 7 | 1-22 | 1 | 0-03 | 2 | 0-00 | 10 | 1-25 | ||
| 2013 | Division 1A | 6 | 0-58 | 2 | 0-09 | 6 | 0-61 | 14 | 0-128 | ||
| 2014 | 7 | 1-43 | 1 | 0-06 | 2 | 0-17 | 10 | 1-66 | |||
| 2015 | 5 | 0-29 | 1 | 0-07 | 2 | 0-05 | 8 | 0-41 | |||
| 2016 | Division 1B | 7 | 0-27 | 1 | 0-02 | 1 | 0-00 | 9 | 0-29 | ||
| Total | 53 | 11-262 | 10 | 0-40 | 15 | 0-86 | 78 | 11-388 | |||