Micheál Lyng

Micheál Lyng, born 7 February 1985, is a Gaelic footballer from County Cavan who lines out as a centre-forward. He played underage football with Crosserlough until he was sixteen and then transferred to Cavan Gaels, where he was a key player as the club dominated the Cavan Championship. He won his first county title in 2003 and nine Cavan Senior Football Championship medals in all, the ninth in 2017 as captain, when he also captained the side in the Ulster Club Final, which was lost to Slaughtneil. For Cavan he made his debut against Galway in a National Football League match in the summer of 2004 and scored four points, played until 2011, when he was one of six players dropped, was recalled for 2014 and retired after the 2015 season. He also won two Sigerson Cups with DCU and a Railway Cup with Ulster in 2004.