Tommy Martin

Dublin

Sports Columnist at Irish Examiner

Presenter on Champions League football with @VMSport_IE. Columnist for @ExaminerSport

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Tommy Martin: The real lesson from Rory's win - stop fiddling with sport

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Martin

It’s four days on and people are still talking about Rory McIlroy. New angles keep coming. How many majors can Rory win? How many majors can Rory win this year? What Leinster can learn from Rory McIlroy. Arise, Sir Rory – King Charles to knight golf champ. The lonely passion of Harry Diamond. Masters mindset – 10 business lessons from Rory McIlroy’s triumph.
Tommy Martin: Before he goes Big Ange has taken on Big Tech

2 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Martin

Ange Postecoglou is clearly in that endgame state for a professional football manager where the milk is curdling and it’s a matter of time before it gets swirled down the plughole. They all go through the same process, at varying speeds. I thought he spoke well at his first press conference. He’s a breath of fresh air. We need to give him time. How much time do we give him? He doesn’t know what he’s doing. Get that prick out of my club. Mutual agreement, thanks and best wishes.
Tommy Martin: A big day out - Irish sport has embraced the event junkie

3 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Martin

There was a time, not too long ago, when calling Irish sports fans âevent junkiesâ was intended as a criticism. This was the time of post-Celtic Tiger shame, when our tendency to turn up in droves at big top jamboree days was seen as a sign of inherent moral weakness. It insinuated that we were at a fundamental level a nation of flibbertigibbets, not to be taken seriously.
Tommy Martin: The league still a preseason competition for the bigger counties

4 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Martin

Poor old Allianz. There has been a lot of sympathy going around for the German insurance giant with the [checks notes] €137 billion market capitalisation, on account of the fact that too many are not taking the GAA leagues they sponsor seriously.
Tommy Martin: Italia '90 hangs over current crop, but remember it all started in Bulgaria

1 month ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Martin

Just what Heimir Hallgrimsson needed, a bloody Italia ’90 reunion. There they were on the Late Late Show last Friday, hair a bit thinner and waists a bit wider, telling all the old stories of a summer that will never be forgotten, mainly because we won’t stop going on about it.
Tommy Martin: Liverpool must face the banter but glory is still theirs

1 month ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Martin

Defeat to PSG in the Champions League on Tuesday night means Liverpool’s impending title win will be a strange kind of glory. The phrase comes from the title of Eamon Dunphy’s biography of Matt Busby, which framed the legendary Manchester United manager’s life within the brutal crucible of 20th-century British industrial working class life.
Tommy Martin: Damien Duff has leaned into role as League of Ireland's honest champion

1 month ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Martin

Of the many talents that Damien Duff has contributed to the current League of Ireland renaissance is the inability to say uninteresting things in media interviews. The Shelbourne manager’s high profile as a legendary Republic of Ireland international was always going to bring attention but it has been Duff’s tendency to reach far beyond the banal when prompted by a microphone that has really helped the league to ride that news cycle. Take his contribution to the recent Ian Harte kerfuffle.
Tommy Martin: Remarkable Jose still has stamina for outrage and grenades

1 month ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Martin

When you are writing a weekly sports column it helps to have subjects you can come back to again and again, old staples that will fill a page when inspiration fails and wordcount remains stubbornly low.
Tommy Martin: Michael Murphy a living myth stepped off the pages of history

2 months ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Martin

OU can understand the enthusiasm of the children who surrounded Michael Murphy for what seemed like hours after his return for Donegal in their Allianz Football League game with Armagh last Sunday. After all, here was the county’s premier sports goods retailer in the flesh, right before their eyes. Not only that, but a man who had recently shared a TV studio with Thomas Niblock and Philly McMahon. A man who had been frequently heard on and had a regular column in the actual .
Tommy Martin: The League of Ireland hasn't changed but the people coming to watch it have

2 months ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Martin

It’s taken the League of Ireland years to become an overnight success. As the new season kicks off there’s a sense of walking into a shiny new build and pointing at all the bespoke Scandi design features where once there were dado rails and two bar heaters. Look over there – 30,000 at the Aviva for a Dublin derby. Oooh, TV and radio deals with consistent coverage throughout the season. Nice – is that an original Lys Mousset? Be careful, don’t break the Mason Melia.

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Tommy Martin

Tommy Martin @TommyMartinVM

11 Apr 25

RT @VMSportIE: 𝗠𝗜𝗣𝗢! 🔴 Shels lead in the North Dublin Derby! Big impact off the bench! #LOI https://t.co/V7LKPA1LED

Tommy Martin

Tommy Martin @TommyMartinVM

11 Apr 25

RT @LeagueofIreland: Roddy Collins and Eoin Doyle kick off coverage tonight with @TommyMartinVM from 19:30 on @VMSportIE https://t.co/qeEvx…

Tommy Martin

Tommy Martin @TommyMartinVM

9 Apr 25

RT @VMSportIE: Lamine Yamal. Bloody hell. What a goal this would have been. #UCL https://t.co/GjkdJiSHDw