Michael Ryan (hurler, born 1970)

Michael Ryan is an Irish hurling manager and former player, born on 4 February 1970 in Upperchurch, County Tipperary, who was the manager of the Tipperary senior team from November 2015 until August 2018. He first arrived on the inter-county scene as a dual player at seventeen, before later joining the under-21 teams in both codes. With Upperchurch-Drombane he won the Tipperary Intermediate Hurling Championship in 1998, and with Tipperary he won the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship in 1991. He is identified here as the Tipperary hurler and manager born in 1970 to tell him apart from other people of the same name.