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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1 week ago |
irishexaminer.com | Tony Leen |Fitzgerald Stadium
NOW that there’s a Royal rebirth in Leinster, is there an Irish sporting blue riband left that routinely falls flat and offers such a meagre ration of teaspach as Munster’s football decider? Not until Cork get their house in order – and that may be a while – can the province extricate its football championship from this parlous slumber, the latest chapter of which played out in front of 13,181 diehards at Fitzgerald Stadium.
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1 month 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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Jan 29, 2025 |
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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Jan 26, 2025 |
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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Who do you think should be our player of the season? 🤔 #BiasedPremierLeague https://t.co/awA4uDwbWQ
For the second time in less than a month, @TipperaryGAA put @OfficialCorkGAA to the pin of their football collar, this time with all the ET drama in the @MunsterGAA MFC semi final. @ExaminerSport, as always, were there: https://t.co/qk91q3mkZY
That’s a shocker from Shane on 18th green, bad bad three-stab. Comes up shy for the Truist with Sepp Straka taking the win.
