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Tony Leen

Cork, Munster

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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  • Kerry boss Jack O’Connor irritated by 'ridiculous' mark interference rule

    1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Tony Leen |Pairc Ui Chaoimh

    THE look of exasperation afterwards on Jack O’Connor’s face had little to do with the underwhelming first half effort from his Kerry players, or even the yellow card the manager picked up after half time. His frustration, along with that of his Cork counterpart John Cleary, centred on the new clean catch or 'mark' interference rule, which had a considerable influence on Kerry’s eleven point victory over Cork.

  • Tony Leen: Time is tight for Kingdom to get up to speed

    2 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Tony Leen

    FIRST Donegal and Armagh in the Ulster final. Then the Dubs’ resurrection against Galway in Salthill. Crash-o-rama classics that felt regal, gladiatorial almost. In Killarney, meanwhile, Kerry’s routine, if occasionally sloppy, Saturday victory over Roscommon had the whiff of the horse and cart about it by comparison. And that should be a big concern to Jack O’Connor, his management ticket and his players.

  • Kerry’s new fab four, the Cork question and did the Rossies smell blood: Talking Points from Kerry’s summer cruise over Rossies

    3 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Tony Leen

    IT hasn’t happened yet this season for various reasons, but a Kerry half-forward line of Joe O’Connor, Paudie Clifford and Sean O’Shea has potency and a whiff of panache written all over it. With Diarmuid O’Connor back at centre-field for the facile All-Ireland SFC victory over Roscommon on Saturday, it allowed his managerial namesake Jack to move his Tralee namesake Joe up a line to right half forward.

  • A summer stroll as Kerry thoughts turn back to Cork and the summer road

    3 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Tony Leen |Fitzgerald Stadium

    THREE family visitors came to town the weekend, and all begged the same questions. How are Kerry going, and will they win the All-Ireland? The first impregnates the second, though it is insignificant by comparison. Kerry need to be going as well as the carriage to Croke Park demands. The All-Ireland series will hardly take them much outside their comfort step and Munster is a wasteland. So everyone feasts on the minutiae. How has Sean O’Shea come back from that knee? What gear is Clifford in?

  • Tony Leen: How are they going to resurrect the Munster SFC?

    1 month 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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Tony Leen
Tony Leen @tonyleen
13 May 25

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Tony Leen
Tony Leen @tonyleen
12 May 25

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

Tony Leen
Tony Leen @tonyleen
11 May 25

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.