Tony Leen
Writer and Sports Editor at Irish Examiner
Irish Examiner writer and Sports Editor. Views here don't represent those of the Irish Examiner. Family is everything. Won’t engage with anonymous accounts.
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3 weeks ago |
irishexaminer.com | Tony Leen
We walked the strand, breakfasted and golfed together (hastily), shared drives that had a vague sense of crashorama when he had the wheel, and for more than 12 years we argued football and reshaped them into columns for this newspaper. Those pieces – often as devilish as their author - were chiselled and shaped in bars and cafes, empty and overflowing dressing rooms, the front seat of his BMW, the windswept fairways in Waterville, and several unlikely points between Portmagee and Portlaoise.
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2 months ago |
irishexaminer.com | Tony Leen
DR Crokes attacker Micheal Burns has returned to Kerry squad training, but won't be involved for the weekend's Allianz FL trip to Celtic Park in Derry. The forward left the squad a year ago under somewhat disputed circumstances but essentially due to a lack of playing time with the county. He spent the summer in the US and returned revived for his club's club and county championship campaigns.
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2 months ago |
irishexaminer.com | Tony Leen
ROWING Ireland didn't do it, but might have been minded to advise on a non-gold dress code for the weekend's annual awards night at the glamorous Fota Island Hotel and resort in Cork. There was plenty of it about anyway. An evening dripping in gold climaxed with the president's award being presented to Skibbereen's Fintan McCarthy and Paul O’Donovan for their extraordinary back-to-back Olympic gold medals in the Lightweight Men’s Double Sculls.
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Jan 20, 2025 |
irishexaminer.com | Tony Leen
KERRY manager Jack O’Connor believes GAA clubs who nurture and develop young talent should be receiving financial compensation from the AFL club who attract them to Australia. The Kingdom begin their Allianz League campaign with a tough opening clash on Sunday against Jim McGuinness’ Donegal and will be down up to nine players from the side that lost the All-Ireland semi-final to Armagh.
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Dec 1, 2024 |
irishexaminer.com | John Fogarty |Tony Leen
THE landslide support for the FRC package was an emphatic statement on the need for Gaelic football change. The 48 rule ‘enhancements’ passed with minimal opposition - indeed, only four failed to get at least 90% and even the countdown clock and hooter motion got 74% support. * From the get-go, approved for football across club and inter-county for 2025 is one-v-one throw-ins with the other two centrefielders positioned on the sideline. * must now go beyond the new 40-metre arc.
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Brilliant
That reply. 😭😭 https://t.co/PlfajUGl1b
Can Madrid keep their back door shut?
@tonyleen The Bernabeu will be like Rorke's Drift for the Arsenal, I fear. A shock and awe siege of the redcoats, on and off the field, which they'll do well to repel.
Double Decker. The cover of Wednesday’s @ExaminerSport. https://t.co/1CZF01lLTa
