Brendan O’Brien
Assistant Sports Editor and Writer at Irish Examiner
✍️Sportswriter | 🎞 Mobile journalist #mojo | 💻 Assistant sports editor | 🗞️Irish Examiner | All views mine and mine alone | Vamos Depor!
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1 week ago |
irishexaminer.com | Brendan O’Brien
Republic of Ireland manager Heimir Hallgrimsson has confirmed that Ipswich Town’s Chiedozie Ogbene will be fit and raring to go when the national team’s 2026 World Cup qualifying campaign gets underway in September. The former Cork City man hasn’t played since rupturing his Achilles tendon during his club’s Premier League 4-3 defeat to Brentford in late October but the news is positive in time for Ireland’s Group F openers at home to Hungary and away to Armenia.
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1 week ago |
irishexaminer.com | Brendan O’Brien
One thought crystallised in Natalie Long’s mind as soon as she crossed the finishing line in Paris last year. That thought was LA in four years’ time. It really was that instantaneous. A decision borne of utter clarity. ‘Winning’ the B final and finishing seventh overall in the women’s four hadn’t been the plan. This was a boat with two Olympic medallists in Eimear Lambe and Emily Hegarty in it, but it wasn’t just the knowledge that injuries and life had in general had held their bid back.
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1 week ago |
irishexaminer.com | Brendan O’Brien
Motivation will be no problem for Leinster as May unfolds. Denied yet again in the Champions Cup, this time at the semi-final stage, the province must now square its shoulders to the secondary target that is a URC title. It’s four seasons now since Leo Cullen’s side won its last piece of silverware. That was when the league was trading under the banner of the PRO14 for the last time. It’s way past time for the trophy cabinet to welcome a new addition.
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1 week ago |
irishexaminer.com | Brendan O’Brien
There is a stripped-back simplicity about the month for Leinster. The Champions Cup final, decided without their input for the first time since 2021, is behind us. The URC regular season has given way to the playoffs. The Lions, squad announced, has been put on ice.
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1 week ago |
irishexaminer.com | Brendan O’Brien
Tadhg Furlong will miss Leinster’s URC quarter-final with Scarlets in Dublin this weekend, but is not a doubt for the British and Irish Lions tour to Australia. The Ireland tighthead has had to sit out a large chunk of this season with a calf problem, but it is the ‘other’ calf proving to be what the province has termed a ‘minor’ problem right now.
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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