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{{Short description|Irish sportsman (born 1986)}}
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''' Ciarán Lyng''' (born 9 July 1986) is an [[GAA GPA All Stars Awards|All Star]]-nominated Irish sportsperson. He plays [[Gaelic football]] and [[hurling]] for St Martin's and Gaelic football for the [[Wexford GAA|Wexford]] senior inter-county team, and has played [[international rules football]] for [[Ireland international rules football team|Ireland]]. He has also played [[association football]] in the [[The Football League|English Football League]] and at under-age level for [[Republic of Ireland national football team|Ireland]].

==Early and personal life==
Lyng grew up as one of four brothers in Wexford, playing football, hurling, handball and soccer.<ref name="irishtimes.com">{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2008/0719/1216398983915.html|title=Model boys take the Lyng wayto the top|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|date=19 July 2008|url-access=subscription}}</ref> His brother [[Diarmuid Lyng]] plays hurling for Wexford.

==Soccer career==
Lyng played soccer almost thirty times for Ireland at underage level. He had a number of offers from British clubs such as [[Premier League]] [[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal]] and [[Derby County F.C.|Derby County]] but opted to move to [[Preston North End F.C.|Preston North End]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/from-preston-to-piercestown-and-now-on-to-croker-26463011.html|title=From Preston to Piercestown and now on to Croker|first=Cliona|last=Foley|newspaper=[[Irish Independent]]|date=19 July 2008|access-date=20 August 2021}}</ref> Lyng moved to Shrewsbury Town in December 2004. He made four substitute appearances in the latter half of the [[2004–05 in English football|2004–05 season]]. In the [[2005–06 in English football|2005–06 season]] for Shrewsbury, he made one start, in a [[Football League Trophy]] match which Shrewsbury lost to [[Cheltenham Town F.C.|Cheltenham Town]].

==Football career==
Lyng has since been selected for the Wexford Gaelic football team in the [[All-Ireland Senior Football Championship]]. He was a member of the Wexford panel which reached the 2008 [[Leinster Senior Football Championship]] final. Lyng scored four points against [[Meath GAA|Meath]] in the quarter-final and one point against [[Laois GAA|Laois]] in the semi-final.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2008/0601/232646-wexford_meath/|title=Wexford 2-14 Meath 2-13|date=1 June 2008|publisher=RTÉ Sport|access-date=20 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2008/0622/233654-wexford_laois/|title=Wexford 0-18 Laois 0-12|date=22 June 2008|publisher=RTÉ Sport|access-date=20 August 2021}}</ref> However, Wexford were easily defeated by [[Dublin GAA|Dublin]] in the Leinster Senior Football Championship Final. Wexford went on to surprisingly reach the [[All-Ireland Senior Football Championship]] semi-final, where they were comfortably beaten by [[Tyrone GAA|Tyrone]]. 2008 was a year to remember for Lyng: he was nominated for an All-Star and he then represented Ireland against Australia in the [[International Rules Series]] that October. A first county medal topped off a great year for Lyng when his St. Martin's team comfortably beat Oulart the Ballagh in a huge upset in the Wexford Senior County Hurling Final.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}

Ciarán won his first County Medal with St Martin's in Intermediate Football in 2007, gaining the 'Man of the Match' award. His brother [[Diarmuid Lyng]] captained that side. He subsequently won a senior county football title with his club in 2013 and he has won two senior county hurling titles with St Martin's in 2017 and 2019.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}

==References==
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==External links==
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{{Wexford Intermediate Hurling Team 2007}}
{{2008 Ireland international rules football team}}

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