Diarmuid Lyng

Diarmuid Lyng (born 1981 in Wexford, Ireland) is an Irish sportsman. He plays hurling and Gaelic football with his local club St Martin's and was a member of the Wexford senior county hurling team between 2004 and 2013.

Playing career Lyng's nickname "Gizzy" was acquired in his childhood and is a reference to the character Gizmo from the movie Gremlins. A graduate of Froebel College of Education, Lyng has worked as a primary school teacher.

Club Lyng plays both hurling and Gaelic football with his local club St Martin's in Piercestown.

In 1999, Lyng was still a member of the club's minor team when he made his senior debut as a seventeen-year-old. He was a non-playing substitute when St Martin's defeated Rathnure by two points to win the club's first county championship.

After losing a final in the meantime, St Martin's were back in the championship decider in 2008. A 1–13 to 1–8 defeat of Oulart–The Ballagh gave Lyng his first county title on the field of play.

He later joined Kerry side Tralee Parnells.

Inter-county Lyng first came to prominence with Wexford as a member of the county's minor team in 1999. He had little success in this grade, losing a Leinster MHC decider to Kilkenny. He later joined the Wexford under-21 team, winning back-to-back Leinster U21HC titles in 2001 and 2002.

Lyng made his senior debut for Wexford in a National Hurling League game against Kilkenny in 2004. He remained on the fringes of the team and was a non-playing substitute when Wexford won a Leinster SHC title. He made his championship debut later that year when he came on as a substitute against Cork in the All-Ireland SHC semi-final.

By 2005 Lyng was a regular on the Wexford starting fifteen; however, the Slanysliders had to play second fiddle to Kilkenny in the provincial championship. Lyng lined out in four consecutive Leinster SHC finals; however, Kilkenny won all four of them.

In 2009, Lyng was appointed Wexford captain. He retained that position in 2010 and guided the team to a National League Division 2 title following a defeat of Clare.

Inter-provincial Lyng lined out with Leinster on a number of occasions in the inter-provincial series. He won two Railway Cup medals in 2006 and 2009.

Personal life quote=In no way is this against the cryotherapy chamber. It's useful, it's good for some people, but for me and where I was? No, it was a bad thing because I didn't ask the pertinent questions, I was in the ego-zone... I stayed in for five minutes when I should probably have only stayed for three, but I was like 'I can do what I want!' That mentality was going on all the time... My body was shocked to its core. I knew, straight away, that I'd done something wrong. There was an ice in my bones, a coldness, and it was deeper in me than I'd ever felt before. — Lyng, reflecting in 2013 on his experience of the cryotherapy chamber

Lyng was given an episode of Laochra Gael, broadcast on 12 March 2020.

He narrated the documentary Réabhlóid GAA, which TG4 premiered in December 2020.

In 2025, he and his partner Siobhán de Paor were the subject of the documentary Immrám.

Honours 2 Leinster Under-21 Hurling Championship: 2001, 2002 2 Railway Cup: 2006, 2009 1 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship: 2004 1 National Hurling League Division 1: 2010 1 Wexford Senior Hurling Championship: 2008