DEREK LYNG HAS been ratified as the new Kilkenny senior hurling manager this evening on a three-year term.
The appointment comes 12 days after Brian Cody had called time on his legendary reign as Kilkenny hurling boss that yielded 11 All-Ireland senior hurling final wins.
Lyng’s selectors and backroom team will be confirmed later with the news announced in a Kilkenny GAA statement that he was ratified at tonight’s county board meeting.
A regular midfielder as a player during Cody’s time in charge, Lyng won six All-Ireland senior medals before he retired in late 2010 having battled a hip injury. The Emeralds clubman was an All-Star winner in 2002 and 2003, while he was part of nine Leinster senior hurling triumphs with Kilkenny.
He served as a selector for Kilkenny alongside Cody between 2014 and 2019, part of the management team for the All-Ireland senior title wins in 2014 and 2015. Earlier this summer Lyng was the manager as Kilkenny claimed glory in the All-Ireland U20 hurling final by a point against Limerick in Semple Stadium.
Lyng’s new role creates a vacancy at U20 level that the Kilkenny county board will now begin the process of filling. They also announced tonight that Niall Bergin has been ratified as the county’s new U17 manager.
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Great athlete and always was a great athlete round ball oval ball makes no different to her.
Keep her happy or she will walk out on here team like she did in Mayo
@DavidCarolan16: how selfish she was. She only gave 20 odd years unpaid to Mayo and numerous all Irelands before eventually walking out on Mayo in her late thirties. Very very selfish.
@DavidCarolan16: when a Cork hurler strikes, its Frank Murphy’s fault. When Limerick hurlers, who’d never won anything despite the support of one of Ireland’s richest men, strike, its their manager’s fault. But when the greatest footballer in the history of women’s sport in Ireland (along with a host of teammates) complains about the conditions, all her accomplishments are forgotten.
@Armchair Follower: she walked out because she was dropped that was the reason
@Kevin O Sullivan: because she was dropped yeah and all intercounty players are not paid .
@DavidCarolan16: she was dropped because she had the temerity to ask for better conditions for her team