Ryan will give Offaly student toughest exam

EXAMS finished for another college year, cushy number helping out the oul’ fella, a GP, in his surgery at home for the summer holidays: should be party time for UCD medical student Brendan Murphy.

However, Brendan has another vocation, full-forward on the Offaly senior hurling team attempting to win its first Leinster title since 1995, but two words, endlessly repeating, intrude on his summertime reveries. Darragh Ryan.

“Enough said,” he laughs. “Everyone knows the quality of Darragh, he has one Allstar anyway, should have three or four. At the moment he’s probably the best full-back in the game, maybe even over the last three or four years.”