At times you forget you play hurling to enjoy it, admits Cian Lynch

Cian Lynch wouldn’t regard himself as a social media influencer, but he has the Midas touch when it comes to grabbing people’s attention on it. 

There were his exquisite freestyle hurling skills that captured people’s attention on YouTube in 2013 and this year he was attracting hits again on the video-sharing platform, acting as a farmer advertising a mock dating app, ‘Hay There’, which had the tag-line: “Helping Ewe Find Your Udder Half.”

“It was actually a college assignment. A few girls I know in media [studies] asked me in as a prop. I ended up being dressed as a farmer. It was grand, but a bit annoying to see it going around the place. It was grand for them, but it was only a college assignment.”