Raymie Ryan

Raymond Ryan, known as Raymie, was born on 16 March 1971 and is an Irish hurling coach and former player who played club hurling with Cashel King Cormacs and at inter-county level with Tipperary. At Cashel CBS he played hurling and Gaelic football to a high standard and won Croke Cup, Fitzgerald Cup and Kinane Cup titles. With his club he won the inaugural Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship in 1991, later converted into a Munster club title. For Tipperary he captained the minor team for a season, won the 1989 All-Ireland under-21 title as a substitute, and on the senior team won the Munster title in 1993 and National Hurling League titles in 1994 and 1999, plus two Railway Cup medals with Munster. He was a substitute when Tipperary lost the 1997 All-Ireland final to Clare. As a manager he led the Tipperary senior camogie team to All-Ireland titles in 2003 and 2004 and took charge of club sides including Drom and Inch, Newtownshandrum and Clough-Ballacolla, whom he guided to the first Laois title in 2009.