Glenn Ryan
Personal information | |||
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Irish name | Glenn Ó Riain | ||
Sport | Gaelic football | ||
Position | Centre back | ||
Born |
Kildare, Ireland | 20 October 1972||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||
Club(s) | |||
Years | Club | ||
1980s– | Round Towers | ||
Club titles | |||
Kildare titles | 3 | ||
Leinster titles | 0 | ||
All-Ireland Titles | 0 | ||
Inter-county(ies) | |||
Years | County | ||
1990–2006 | Kildare | ||
Inter-county titles | |||
Leinster titles | 2 | ||
All-Irelands | 0 | ||
NFL | 0 | ||
All Stars | 2 |
Glenn Ryan (born 20 October 1972) is a Gaelic football manager and former player. He has been manager of the Kildare county team since 2021.
Ryan previously managed Longford and the Kildare under-21 team.
He
He played his club football with Round Towers, winning the county title with them three times.[2]
Management
Kildare under-21 team
Ryan managed the Kildare under-21 team to a
Longford
In October 2008, he took over the Longford senior football team.
In Ryan's first year in charge Longford were knocked out in the first round of the Leinster Senior Football Championship by Wicklow. They then went into the Qualifiers where they beat Leitrim 0–13 to 0–10 before they ran Kerry close in Round 2 going down 1–12 to 0–11.
Ryan's second year in charge once again seen his side go out in the first round in Leinster losing out to Louth, they once again entered the Qualifiers, in round 1 they pulled off the shock of the championship when they beat Mayo 1–12 to 0–14, in Round 2 Down proved too good and ran out 1–14 to 1–10 winners.
2011 started out well for Ryan and Longford when they beat Roscommon by 2–11 to 1–08 to take the National League Div 4 title.
In 2012, Longford again had a good start to the year this time by winning the Div 3 National League title with a win over Wexford giving Ryan and Longford back-to-back titles.
In August 2013, Ryan vacated the Longford senior management role.[3][4]
Kildare
On 2 October 2021, following the departure of Kildare's senior football manager
Kildare contested the
References
- ^ Kildare to honour Ryan Archived 30 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Hoganstand.com (2006-10-26). Retrieved on 2011-06-22.
- ^ Ryan, Glenn Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Hoganstand.com (1991-05-03). Retrieved on 2011-06-22.
- ^ "Past Longford Managers". Longford Gaelic Stats.
- ^ "Glen Ryan steps down as Longford senior football manager". RTÉ. 9 August 2013. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2013.