Brendan O’Brien
Assistant Sports Editor and Writer at Irish Examiner
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1 day ago |
irishexaminer.com | Brendan O’Brien
Progress can be judged in lots of ways. Points on the board are the most obvious but there are layers within games and performances that can be measured. Denis Fogarty refusing to bleach his hair again would be another. The Ireland scrum coach promised to go for the bottled blonde look last year if the team claimed a third-place finish in the Six Nations. When they did, well, what could he do but follow through and transform the locks?
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1 day ago |
irishexaminer.com | Brendan O’Brien
Xander Schauffele is the world No.3. The Claret Jug and the Wanamaker Trophy are still in his care following wins at the Open Championship and the US PGA last year, and the American finished in a tie for eighth at the Masters just gone on the back of a bad rib injury. This is one of golf’s brightest stars, but even he sits in the shade next to Rory McIlroy.
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2 days ago |
irishexaminer.com | Brendan O’Brien
New R&A chief executive Mark Darbon has declared himself “optimistic” that The Open can one day be brought to Portmarnock. Golf’s oldest championship will be played in Royal Portrush in Co. Antrim this summer, six years after Shane Lowry won the Claret Jug on the same famous Dunluce links course. Prior to that, the one and only hosting in Northern Ireland had been on the same links in 1951.
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5 days ago |
irishexaminer.com | Brendan O’Brien
Leo Cullen has explained how all three of New Zealand’s Barrett brothers were among their targets when the idea of signing world-class talent on short-term sabbatical contracts first dawned as a possibility. Jordie Barrett has proven to be a sensation for the province since arriving after the November Test window. His Kiwi teammate Rieko Ioane will join on a similar deal next December, by which time Barrett will be back in New Zealand.
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5 days ago |
irishexaminer.com | Brendan O’Brien
Newport today, tomorrow the world? Not quite. Ireland’s women still have one more Six Nations tie against the Scots to take care of after this visit to Wales, but the focus is turning inexorably already to a World Cup that starts in August. Scott Bemand’s side will start off their Pool C campaign with Japan and Spain in Northampton’s Franklin’s Gardens before migrating south for a mouth-watering clash with holders New Zealand at the home of Brighton & Hove Albion.
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