Brendan O’Brien
Assistant Sports Editor and Writer at Irish Examiner
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1 week ago |
irishexaminer.com | Brendan O’Brien
Leinster head coach Leo Cullen has described as ‚Äúwild‚ÄĚ reports in the English and French media of a salary cap at the province that stretches up to ‚ā¨17million per year. The club‚Äôs resources, financial and in terms of personnel, have long been a source of fascination here and abroad, especially when it comes to the back end of a Champions Cup campaign, and it was no different last week.
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1 week ago |
irishexaminer.com | Brendan O’Brien
Leinster’s wait for a fifth star will stretch now to at least eight years after Saturday’s Champions Cup semi-final defeat to Northampton Saints in Dublin. That’s four lost deciders, two semis and a quarter-final exit since beating Racing 92 in Bilbao in 2018. The Boston Red Sox endured an 86-year 'Curse of the Bambino', Mayo have spent decades trying and failing to get over the line in the football All-Ireland, and England's footballers are now onto 59 years of hurt.
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1 week ago |
irishexaminer.com | Brendan O’Brien |Aviva Stadium
Leo Cullen believes he remains the right man to lead Leinster to glory after the province’s Champions Cup curse continued with a haunting semi-final loss to Northampton Saints in Dublin on Saturday evening. The four-time winners have hit the bar time and again in recent seasons. They have now lost four deciders, two semi-finals and a quarter-final since their last success in 2018 when they edged Racing 92 in a tense game at Athletic Bilbao’s San Mames stadium.
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1 week ago |
irishexaminer.com | Brendan O’Brien |Aviva Stadium
Losing the last three Champions Cup finals was pure torment for Leinster. This may actually be worse. That they added so richly to one of the greatest Champions Cup contests of all time won’t act as any manner of salve. Heavy favourites to become the first team to make four straight deciders in this 30-year old tournament, the lights went out three weeks earlier than expected on the back of an electric Northampton Saints effort that peaked with three tries inside nine first-half minutes.
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1 week ago |
irishexaminer.com | Brendan O’Brien
Funny how some circles can close. Leinsterâs season began over seven months ago with a pair of tune-ups against Northampton Saints in Dublin and a trip to the Stade Chaban-Delmas where they faced Bordeaux-Begles. Leo Cullen and his staff went out for a meal with their Bordeaux counterparts the day before that second friendly and the conviviality spread sufficiently for everyone to agree that it would be fantastic should they meet again in Cardiff.
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There were guesstimates ranging from eleven to 18 Irish players at various stages in the last few weeks In the end, Andy Farrell named a record 15 for the British and Irish Lions tour to Australia https://t.co/4L8xYgKLYs
British and Irish Lions squad announcement ‘show’ starting shortly at the 02 in London Plenty of seats to be filled yet… 🏉 https://t.co/jwp7pVvVoq
On site at the 02 in London for the British and Irish Lions squad announcement FWIW, the squad I drew up on the red eye over had 14 Irish, 14 English, 8 Scots and 3 Welsh. Couldn’t narrow it down any further All will be revealed from 1.30pm https://t.co/vQYBvLuWya