Educated at
Blackrock College in
Dublin, Cryan first played
Gaelic football with the
Ballinamore Seán O'Heslin's club. He
captained the team to the
Leitrim SFC title in 1956. Cryan first played for
Leitrim as a member of the
minor team in 1947. He progressed to the
junior team and won a
Connacht JFC medal in 1952. Cryan was part of the
Leitrim senior football team that lost four consecutive
Connacht SFC finals to
Galway from 1957 to 1961. He was also a sub on the
Connacht team that won back-to-back
Railway Cup titles in 1957 and 1958. Cryan ended his inter-county career by claiming a second Connacht JFC medal in 1962. ==Death==