Pat Ryan
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4,709 appearances
15 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2026
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you know you start looking back at what I had instead of what I didn't have and I found for I'm fine now competing now and I enjoyed this year an awful lot more than 23 and that's being 100% honest with you because like that I would have had lingering emotions in 23 and I would have found it hard and difficult whereas now a couple of years older even the perspective of having a child you know what I mean and the perspective of different things the older you get
I find it a lot easier now at the time in that first I think it's the first year out I'd say it could be even similar when you retire maybe your first year out I don't know it's different when you retire you're going on your own terms but the first year out is incredibly difficult and you mentioned Seamus Fanning in there look I would be friendly with Seamus from hurling with him I wasn't talking to him at all this year now like it would be incredibly difficult for Seamus the other day do you know and that's just the sporting nature of what it is that guys move on and that's what it is but it's still hard you still have given your whole life to it you know Seamus has still given nine ten years to it
Very same as other players in other counties.
Like if Cork had won this year, Patrick Horgan would be, you'd be talking about Patrick Horgan there, not Seamus.
And Patrick Horgan had just given almost 20 years service.
So it is hard, but it's a representation of life itself.
It is, you know, that some people get to live old and grey and live on forever.
Some people don't get that and they get moved on quicker than they want.
You know, I like to look back and see what I got to enjoy and I got to enjoy All-Ireland wins and got to be part of
such a great team.
Even in 23, Malwa helped me.
Would you believe it was Caroline Curry to give me a bit of advice?
She rang me after I was dropped and we chatted away and she said to me, she said, look, you don't have to do this, but it's up to yourself.
She said, if I were you now, she said, I would look at maybe, you know, you've no major commitments here for the summer.
I would look at, you know, go away with your partner, have a bit of fun.
That way, when you look back,
you know you don't just look back with sour grapes and you have a year of what might have happened you'll have all these other memories and that year I lived in New York for the summer went hurling for the summer and it was I will honestly say it was the best summer of my whole life do you know so she gave me a great bit of advice there when she said that to me I said you know what I will look into doing that and you know but isn't it a measure but isn't it a measure of the woman that there she was thinking of you
It was only one phone call, maybe a week after.
But sure, that's all you need.
100% 100% and you know I really appreciated that and it pointed me in the right direction straight away it got me thinking about something else and to do something else to put my energy into something else so you know it was fantastic and she's fantastic for that you were talking all about Seamus could he get back or anybody else could he get back who knows you know Colin Ryan made history the weekend he was sub-goalie for Limerick you know he had been let go in 2019
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