Lester Ryan

Lester Ryan was an Irish hurler who lived from 1959 until his death on 6 June 2020 and played as a midfielder at club level with Clara and at inter-county level with the Kilkenny senior hurling team. His brother, Harry Ryan, and his nephew, also named Lester Ryan, were All-Ireland Championship winners with Kilkenny. As a student at St Kieran's College he played hurling at all levels before joining the college's senior team, with which he won the Leinster Colleges Senior Hurling Championship and the All-Ireland Colleges Senior Hurling Championship in 1977, and with Clara he won the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship in 1986.