Former Cork Celtic soccer star Noel Ryan has died. He was the father of new St Patrick’s Athletic goalkeeper Barry Ryan.
Mr Ryan, from Ennis, Co Clare, excelled in both soccer and gaelic sports.
He played hurling for the famous Éire Óg club and for his native county and also represented Clare in football.
In soccer, he played in Clare for St Michael’s and for Janesboro in Limerick before heading for Turner’s Cross toward the end of Cork Celtic’s League of Ireland existence.
