Tom Ryan (Toomevara hurler)

Tom Ryan, formally Thomas J. Ryan, was an Irish hurler who lived from 1941 until his death on 17 March 1970. At club level he played with Toomevara and he was also a member of the Tipperary senior hurling team. He first played hurling at juvenile and underage level with Toomevara, progressed to the club's senior team and won three successive North Tipperary Senior Hurling Championships, from 1960 to 1962, as well as the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship in 1960. With Tipperary he won the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship and the Munster Senior Hurling Championship in 1962 and 1965. He is identified here as the Toomevara hurler to tell him apart from other people of the same name.