Ryan Confidential

Kerryman Deaglán Ryan is fighting crime as an FBI Special Agent in New York. But it’s not very conducive to family life, he tells John Daly

IT’S a long way from Cork’s Mardyke to the shooting ranges of Virginia’s Quantico, and an even longer journey when a career path leads to the hallowed halls of America’s legendary Federal Bureau of Investigation. For Deaglán Ryan, UCC BA in Applied Psychology, class of 1995, this path less taken has seen him become a Special Agent at the agency’s New York field office where he says “small pieces of history are made every day.”

A native of north Kerry, he recalls the moment the seed was planted. “Aside from watching thrillers and action films as a boy, which I suppose is everyone’s first introduction to the FBI, my first encounter with the real work that is undertaken by FBI Special Agents was during my undergraduate days at UCC. The Department of Psychology offered an elective unit in Criminal Psychology, which I immediately signed up for.”