Ryan Wylie is a

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er who plays for

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(where his brothers Brent and Drew play with him), UCD and at senior level for the Monaghan county team. He took over as

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of Monaghan in 2020 and was captaining Monaghan in 2020 when

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came along. He was captaining them again in 2021 when the community numbed with the under-20 car crash. He is a brother of Drew. He works as

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in the Mater Hospital and they come from a Protestant family, as Cavan midfielder Gearoit McKiernan cruelly reminded them in the

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, instant red card for McKiernan from

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over that, then a ban for bad language over what is believed to be a first, a red card used for racist or sectarian abuse.

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