Ciara from The Ryan McBride Foundation visited our school yesterday to talk to P3-P7 classes about Ryan McBride's story and how the foundation has been created to honour his legacy. The children were shown a short clip of Ryan's achievements and were allowed a Q&A session with players Ciaron Harkin and Conor McDermott, which they thoroughly enjoyed.

RYAN’S STORY Copyright Ryan McBride Foundation

Ryan McBride was 19 years old and playing for his local junior team when he was asked to come and train with his local League of Ireland club Derry City. His dream was to play for the club, he lived just 100 yards from Derry’s Brandywell Stadium and would walk past the ground every day. Ryan soon made the first team squad, picked up the man of the match award on his full league debut and went onto play 177 games, enjoy 79 victories, keep 66 clean sheets and score 13 goals. His greatest achievements were winning the FAI Cup and League Cup, being named in the League of Ireland XI and becoming captain of Derry City in 2015 leading the team out 57 times. At points in his career Ryan had chances to leave Derry for more lucrative offers he stayed loyal at remained at the club.