{"id":480117,"date":"2026-06-03T01:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T01:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/480117\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T01:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T01:09:06","slug":"derek-lyng-steps-down-as-kilkenny-senior-hurling-team-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/480117\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Lyng steps down as Kilkenny senior hurling team manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Lyng has stepped down as Kilkenny senior hurling team manager.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday evening <a href=\"https:\/\/kilkennygaa.ie\/2026\/06\/statement-from-kilkenny-county-board-derek-lyng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kilkenny GAA released a statement<\/a> confirming Lyng&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<p>During Lyng&#8217;s four years in charge at senior inter-county level, Kilkenny won three Leinster titles and reached the 2023 All-Ireland decider.<\/p>\n<p>Kilkenny GAA chairperson PJ Kenny acknowledged Lyng&#8217;s work as a player, selector, and manager. &#8220;Derek&#8217;s contribution to Kilkenny hurling over almost three decades has been immense,&#8221; Kenny remarked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His commitment to the county has never been in question, and he has always carried out his role with honesty, integrity and pride.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On behalf of Kilkenny County Board and the people of Kilkenny, I would like to sincerely thank Derek for his outstanding service as a player, selector and manager. We are deeply grateful for everything he has done for Kilkenny hurling and wish him and his family every success in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derek Lyng has stepped down as Kilkenny senior hurling team manager. On Tuesday evening Kilkenny GAA released a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-480117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}