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Place of Birth: Borrisoleigh, Munster, Ireland
About Bobby Ryan (hurler)
- Bobby Ryan (born 23 October 1961) is an Irish retired hurler.
- His league and championship career with the Tipperary senior team spanned thirteen seasons from 1980 to 1993. Born in Borrisoleigh, County Tipperary, Ryan was raised in a strong hurling family.
- His father, Tim Ryan, and his uncles, Ned Ryan and Pat Stakelum, won All-Ireland medals with Tipperary between 1949 and 1951.Ryan enjoyed his first hurling successes with Templemore CBS.
- Here he won an All-Ireland medal in 1978.
- Ryan first appeared for the Borris-Ileigh club at juvenile and underage levels, before eventually joining the club's senior team.
- The highlight of his club career came in 1987 when he won an All-Ireland medal.
- Ryan also won one Munster medal and three county championship medals. Ryan made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of sixteen when he was selected for the Tipperary minor team.
- He enjoyed two championship seasons with the minor team before subsequently joining the under-21 team with whom he won back-to-back All-Ireland medals in 1980 and 1981.
- By this stage Ryan had also joined the Tipperary senior team, making his debut during the 1980-81 league.
- Over the course of the following thirteen seasons, he won All-Ireland medals in 1989 as captain and in 1991.
- Ryan also won five Munster medals and one National League medal.
- He played his last game for Tipperary in August 1993.
- Ryan was joined on the Tipperary team for much of his career by his brother Aidan.After being chosen on the Munster inter-provincial team for the first time in 1984, Ryan was an automatic choice on the starting fifteen for the following three years.
- During that time he won two Railway Cup medals.
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