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Recently, we have launched the website Liathroidi.ie, the Irish language version of Balls.ie. Diarmuid Lyng here writes about his own journey in Irish.

A short film set to the words of Diarmuid Lyng’s poem ‘Ériú’ that explores the primal influences that are native to us and how those influences might serve us in modern Ireland.

I've long admired the work of Myles O’Reilly and Rónán Ó Snodaigh, both individually and collectively. Their first album was my go-to soundtrack for the lockdown. To get the opportunity to work with them was a gift. Particularly because the invite was 'come as yourself, no acting, no staging...

Filling in for Jennifer Zamparelli on her radio show, Aifric chats to former intercounty hurler, Diarmuid Lyng about stepping out of the daily grind to return to nature and how he wishes to help Irish men in particular do just that.

Former Wexford hurler Diarmuid Lyng helps men reclaim their primal wildness.

I spent every Monday of the Summer commuting to the capital to present SportsJoe's The Hurling Hour. I sat with some of the great hurlers of past and present and enjoyed every second of the experience.

For Féile na Bealtaine this year('22) in West Kerry Diarmuid and Siobhan teamed up with the locals of Corca Dhuibhne to produce and star in 'Iomándraíocht - Cath Fionn Trá', an outdoor theatre performance designed to create the feeling of a ritual retelling, more than a re-enactment...

Diarmuid Lyng looks at his watch. Show-time. It wasn’t that long ago when, as a man who gave up his job as a sideline reporter and a studio pundit for Off The Ball, he left this life behind him. That was a time when he’d had enough of Dublin’s busy ways but here he is, sitting in front of me...

A Rite of Passage ritual can serve any transition; From Boob to Bread - Marking our boy Uisne's transition from his mother's milk to societies food.

DIARMUID LYNG IS thinking about a recent video on David McSavage’s Instagram page in which the comedian chastises those who claim to enjoy swimming in the Irish sea.

GAA Revolution is a brand new documentary that tells the story of hurling in the nineties, a period when the sport was transformed and it was decided that it was a game for the people of Ireland. This is the story of those ten years that changed the sport and the country forever.

Teaming up with Timmy Creed, actor and theatre maker, we produced a short titled 'What Is The Quest.I.On' for the Mountshannon Arts Festival, funded by the Arts Council and shot entirely during the first lockdown in West Kerry.

The second programme in the new series of Laochra Gael tells the story of Diarmuid "Gizzy" Lyng. He was captain and leader of a Wexford team that performed heroics in their efforts to overcome Kilkenny, the greatest team of all time. Then, at the height of his powers, he was struck down...

‘We ran a lot of creatives out of the GAA. I’ve met them. And they do feel wronged’

Voiceover by Diarmuid Lyng

Voiceover for the Allianz League 2019/2020 promotion video.

Diarmuid has worked as a commentator and analyst for TG4 for the past fifteen years.

A series for children that featured a different GAA club each week. Co presented with Máire Ní Bhraonain.

I teamed up with On The Ball team building in 2019 as an ideal outlet to work with teams on creating a team and club culture. Rooted in a sense of place the workshops and talks have served to reconnect players with their community in a way teams sometimes forget in the high performance...

In the summer of 2019, as part of an initiative to encourage people to become custodians of their coastline, I traveled around the country meeting GAA stars in their own hometowns to hear their message on cleaning the coast. In this episode Dara O'Cinnéide says: this place is our Mecca.

From 1937 to 1939, schoolchildren from 5000 schools across Ireland collected almost half a million pages of folklore from their relatives and neighbours, the most ambitious scheme of its kind ever undertaken.

The Trailblazery is a cultural agency dedicated to creatively activating the spirit of our times so that we can take better care of ourselves, each other, and this place we call home.

A personal and sporting profile of Diarmuid as featured on TG4 show, The Geansaí.

On his travels in 2011 Diarmuid had his trusted hurl in hand to shoot the video 'Hurling Around The World', in conjunction with World Sports Team.