Jonathan Lyne (24 February 1990) is an Irish sportsperson. He plays

Gaelic football Gaelic football (; short name '')'', commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football, it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score ...

with his local club

Killarney Legion Killarney Legion are a Gaelic Athletic Association club from Killarney in County Kerry, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The club was founded on a March evening in 1929 when a group of eleven men held a meeting in the then Temperance movement, Te ...

and was a member of the senior Kerry county team from 2014. Lyne started at right half-back for Kerry in the 2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final defeat to

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. He is a cousin of

Pat Spillane Patrick Gerard Spillane (born 1 December 1955), better known as Pat Spillane, is an Irish former Gaelic football pundit and player. His league and championship career at senior level with the Kerry county team spanned seventeen years from 197 ...

. His younger brother Damien died suddenly in Killarney in 2020. Lyne confirmed his retirement from inter-county football on 1 January 2021. Though he played often in 2020, he was not involved in the

2020 Munster Senior Football Championship The 2020 Munster Senior Football Championship was the 2020 installment of the annual Munster Senior Football Championship organised by the Munster GAA. The fixtures were announced on RTÉ Radio on 8 October 2019. Due to the impact of the COVID-19 ...

semi-final defeat to Cork.

References

1990 births Living people Kerry inter-county Gaelic footballers Killarney Legion Gaelic footballers

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