Seán Ryan (1939 - 1 March 2012) was an Irish
Gaelic football
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er. His
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and
championship
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career with the
Offaly senior team spanned nine seasons from 1959 to 1966.
Ryan made his senior debut for Offaly during the
1958–59 league. Over the course of the next nine seasons he won two
Leinster SFC medals. Ryan played his last game for Offaly in November 1966.
He played for St Monica's while working with
Aer Lingus
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in London.
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Honours
;Offaly
*Leinster Senior Football Championship
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(2): 1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
Events January
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, 1961
Events January
* January 1 – Monetary reform in the Soviet Union, 1961, Monetary reform in the Soviet Union.
* January 3
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and cons ...
References
1939 births
2012 deaths
Doon Gaelic footballers
Irish expatriate sportspeople in England
Mechanics (people)
Offaly inter-county Gaelic footballers
St Monica's (London) Gaelic footballers
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