WHEN YOU PLAY FOR ULSTER RUGBY THE ONLY WAY IS FORWARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Welcome Dave Ryan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n
OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n Ulster Rugby have signed Irish qualified prop, Dave Ryan, from Zebre on a two-year contract.\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n The 27 year-old from Cork, came through the Munster Academy and played 10 times for the Munster Senior side between 2009 and 2011.<\/p>\n \u2028\u2028He left the Irish Province in the Spring of 2011 to join Lazio Roma, before moving to Zebre at the start of the 2012\/13 season.<\/p>\n To date he has played 20 RaboDirect PRO12 games for the Italian franchise and has made six appearances for Zebre in the Heineken Cup.\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n Speaking about moving to Ravenhill, Ryan said:<\/p>\n “I would like to thank Fabio Ongaro, the coaching staff and Zebre organisation for the opportunity they have given me. I have developed a lot as a player and a person during my time in Italy. I believe that Zebre are progressing and definitely a squad whose arrow is pointing upwards.”<\/p>\n “While a part of me is sad to leave, the opportunity to join a team with the quality and character of Ulster was too great to pass up. I’m excited to start a new chapter in my career with a team I have always admired for their work ethic, style of play and physicality.”<\/p>\n “I would like to thank David Humphreys and Mark Anscombe for the opportunity. I look forward to working hard and being part of a team and organisation who compete at the highest level of European Rugby.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2028\u2028Ulster\u2019s Director of Rugby, David Humphreys, added:\u2028\u2028 \u201cDave is an experienced Irish prop with solid experience in both the PRO12 and Europe. He adds further squad strength to the key position of tighthead prop and I have no doubt that he will be a huge success at Ravenhill.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WHEN YOU PLAY FOR ULSTER RUGBY THE ONLY WAY IS FORWARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Welcome Dave Ryan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE Ulster Rugby have signed Irish qualified prop, Dave Ryan, from Zebre on a two-year contract.\u2028\u2028 The 27 year-old from Cork, came through the Munster Academy and played 10 times for the Munster Senior side between 2009 and 2011. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7586,4792,3959,6705,6156,1997],"class_list":["post-66065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-dave","tag-prop","tag-rugby","tag-ryan","tag-sign","tag-ulster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66065"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66069,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66065\/revisions\/66069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}