Tommy Martin

2 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Martin

So posted a Colombian sports journalist called Richard José Durán this week, sharing with his X followers the now-famous image of Damien Duff getting around his touchline ban for Shelbourne’s game against Bohemians by, as Ricardo says, “watching the match from one of the mountains bordering Dalymount Park.”  Subscribe to access all of the Irish Examiner.

3 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Martin

“Christ, at the moment, after five months, this is a great game again.”The words of Pat Spillane, speaking on the Indo Sport podcast this week, on the subject of Gaelic football’s long walk to freedom. Which, of course, makes Spillane the Nelson Mandela of GAA punditry. Subscribe to access all of the Irish Examiner.

1 month ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Martin

You were the width of a post away from getting another column about what useless things most people were getting up to when they were Lamine Yamal’s age. That’s how close it was to one of the greatest Champions League ties of all time being defined by someone who can’t vote and presumably still leaves his dirty socks lying around his bedroom. Subscribe to access all of the Irish Examiner.

1 month ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Martin

Many people are using the concept of fallen empire to talk about the plight of the once mighty Dublin senior footballers, mainly because the Leinster Championship has been a bit like the old Christians and lions routine for the past 15 years. We all remember the scene. How the citizens of the imperial capital would cheer as another band of frightened, say, Longford men were prodded into the Croke Park colosseum.

1 month ago | law.com | Tommy Martin

In a little-publicized but powerful campaign, Amazon has been teaming up with intellectual property owners to take counterfeiters to court—often footing the legal bill itself. The lawsuits have targeted a wide range of counterfeit goods, from unauthorized copies of the now-ubiquitous “Stanley” cup to unlicensed replicas of the WWE heavyweight champion belt. See Amazon.com v. Burns, No. 2:24-cv-01976 (W.D. Wash.); Amazon.com v. Grato International, No. 2:22-cv-01205 (W.D. Wash.).