Ryan’s new chapter in old story
For the Ryans of Clara have been wearing the black and amber for time out of mind. Usually with success. Rarely without making an impression.
Back in the late 1940s there was Father Harry, one of the most gifted minors to ever play for the county but lost to the priesthood shortly afterwards. More notably, there was Tom, who after hurling junior for Kilkenny moved to Enniscorthy and became the final piece of Wexford’s jigsaw, a character who by hook and crook kept the axemen in enemy full-back lines so busy that Nicky Rackard was able to roam free and wreak havoc from deep and whose grandson Liam starred for the Purple and Gold this summer as a teenage corner-back.
