Damian Diver (born 1973/4) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for Ard an Rátha and the Donegal county team. He played at half-back for his county. He made 120 appearances, 36 of which were championship, for the team between 1995 and 2006. He was noted for owning his own gym equipment in a time before this was commonplace. Playing career Club and college Diver twice won the Donegal Senior Football Championship with his club. He took a free that led to the goal scored during the 2004 final. He was also captain of DIT during their 1995 cup-winning season, but missed the final with influenza. Inter-county Diver first featured on the county panel in 1994. P. J. McGowan was the manager to introduce Diver to the Donegal senior team. He made his debut in an away game to Meath in Navan in the 1994–95 National Football League, during which he marked Colm Coyle and Trevor Giles. Based in Dublin as a student with DIT while training to become a quantity surveyor at the time, Diver did not expect to play and was thus not monitoring his diet. He travelled west from Dublin to meet the team. Diver said later: "I was stuffing myself with grub. I'll never forget it, P. J. McGowan came up to me after and says 'you're starting wing-back today'. Well holy Christ, the colour must've gone out of my face". Diver made his senior championship debut for Donegal against Down in 1996. He played in the 1998 Ulster Senior Football Championship final. He started Mickey Moran's first game in charge of Donegal, a league win at home to Offaly in October 2000. Diver made an appearance as a first-half substitute against Armagh in the 2002 Ulster SFC final. He then played against Dublin in the 2002 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (in which Donegal earned a replay), but Diver returned home on the bus with only three teammates. He started the first game of Brian McEniff's last spell as Donegal manager, a league defeat to Galway in Tuam in February 2003. He played in an All-Ireland SFC semi-final later that year. He played in the 2004 Ulster SFC final, after Donegal defeated All-Ireland champions Tyrone in the semi-final. He also made a substitute appearance in the 2006 Ulster SFC final against Armagh in Croke Park, in what proved to be his last game as a