Maurice Brosnan
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Irish Examiner senior sportswriter 🗞️📱📹
Podcast: Rory McIlroy’s decade-long dance with Augusta, golf and Ireland
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Arena with Maurice Brosnan: Rory McIlroy’s decade-long dance with Augusta, golf and Ireland
Rory McIlroy is now a back-to-back Masters champion and a six-time major winner. This week, we look back on his remarkable triumph at Augusta National and what it was like to witness it on the ground.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/golf/arid-41828519.html
about 1 month ago
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Nothing demonstrates the funny way that men talk to each other like the Masters
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Nothing demonstrates the funny way that men talk to each other like the Masters
Sport has always been a powerful vehicle for men to communicate with each other and golf is peculiarly suited to that given its leisurely pace of play.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/golf/arid-41824259.html
about 2 months ago
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Oscars 2026🏆 Pic: OBAA Director: PTA Actress: Buckley Actor: Moura Supporting: Del Toro forever Supporting: Taylor Original: Sinners Great movie year. Lots of 4/5s+. Watch Retirement Plan! It’s a gorgeous animated short and available on RTE player:
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Retirement Plan
Academy Award–nominated short film telling the story of Ray (Domhnall Gleeson) as he fantasises about everything he’d love to do in retirement—once he finally has the time. Watch Retirement Plan on RT...
https://www.rte.ie/player/movie/retirement-plan-s01-e1/748721704331
2 months ago
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Great stuff from Padraic Joyce. Hard to beat common sense. Players from outside the 26 were released to play for their clubs this weekend. "Sometimes lads come into panels, if they are not allowed to play, they end up not playing a game for months. I'd be totally against that”
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2 months ago
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Donegal go "zonal" and Kerry ruthlessly expose it. Mayo go aggressive man-to-man and Kerry ruthlessly expose it. Shocker: Kerry are very good at attacking.
3 months ago
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What a weird half. Galway fully converted to the running game, often have only two inside Kilkenny’s half. But finding loads of space and have had 22 shots. Derek Lyng has taken off both his wing-forwards. They are 0-15 to 0-9 down.
3 months ago
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Eight Gaelic football observations 📜 Mayo has the fewest two-pointers conceded in D1. What is their style of play? 🟧 Pressing with five inside 🪗 Big goalkeeping calls 1⃣
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Gaelic football observations: Moranball raises Mayo ceiling, Armagh doing so much right
Mayo are a side determined to defend aggressively and shoot boldly. It means they will inevitably give up clear-cut goal chances. Kerry will aim to take advantage later this month.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41803784.html
3 months ago
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RELEASE THE TAPE What a phenomenal thing. I wonder whether Mark McInerney was the first inter-county player to do it? Let's celebrate it properly 🎬
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3 months ago
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The audible despair in Lowry’s voice there 🥲
3 months ago
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How do you make a Champions League player? Enjoyed talking to John Caulfield and Mikey McCullagh about Alex Murphy.
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Nature, nurture, and the space in between: How to make a Champions League player
Galway's Alex Murphy made his European Cup debut this week - how did he get there?
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/soccer/arid-41801258.html
3 months ago
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The Games Intelligence Unit is up and running for hurling and Gaelic football. First report will be after the league.
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GAA’s Games Intelligence Unit now operational for hurling and Gaelic football
Among other things, the GIU supplied data and video analysis to inter-county referees to help them review their performance
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41799023.html
3 months ago
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Love this from Paul Galvin. A simple switch that could help a lot of players. “It was a total new game for me. I was much more efficient in my movement. I was harder to mark.”
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3 months ago
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A blow for sportswriting in Super Bowl week should remind us who really wins
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A blow for sportswriting in Super Bowl week should remind us who really wins
The Washington Post sports section existed with a seriousness of purpose. This week, the newspaper eliminated it in its entirety.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/othersport/arid-41789327.html
4 months ago
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Ruben Amorim’s longest win streak as Man United manager (63 games): 3 Michael Carrick’s longest win streak as Man United manager (4 games): 4
4 months ago
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Find someone who loves you the way Donegal loves Michael Murphy
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4 months ago
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Enda McGinley is outstanding on co-commentary
4 months ago
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Agreed. Great late drama, but it is a problem if viewers aren’t always sure where the jeopardy is or what’s actually at stake.
add a skeleton here at some point
4 months ago
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Amy Devlin
4 months ago
SCENES! 🔴⚪ Benfica goalkeeper scores at the death to keep them in the Champions League!
#UCL
Mourinho with the ballboy 🤣
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Eight observations and predictions for the 2026 hurling season
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Maurice Brosnan: Eight observations and predictions for the 2026 hurling season
As the championship opens up, hurling’s flaws are becoming its greatest asset — but only on the pitch
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41781161.html
4 months ago
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Piece from yesterday. When the aliens come, show them the All-Ireland club final.
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When the aliens come, show them Dingle's epic with St Brigid’s in the All-Ireland club final
From a distance, the outsider might understand the All-Ireland club finals even better than we do; that this is not about sport at all, but about people gathering to remind themselves who they are
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41778134.html
4 months ago
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An emotional Mark O’Connor sums up what it all means. “It is the Dingle boys who will be under the coffin some day. It just means the world.”
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4 months ago
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WHAT A CLUTCH KICK
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An All-Ireland cracker awaits, but how close is club GAA to inter-county?
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An All-Ireland cracker awaits, but how close is club GAA to inter-county?
The main area where the club game still lags is in sheer athleticism
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41777132.html
4 months ago
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Piece on how St Brigid’s will defend this Sunday. There is also a video interview with coach Evan Talty.
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The defender and the danger. How do St Brigid’s stop a force like Tom O’Sullivan?
St Brigid’s coach Evan Talty likens the Kerry star to a point guard for Dingle
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41775833.html
4 months ago
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨
4 months ago
"It's not the same as Twitter", friend Twitter isn't the same as Twitter. Old Twitter died years ago, we need to accept that almost no-one under 30 is interested in joining text-based social media - the format will die with us, like floppy discs, Mars Delights, and the concept of hope for the future
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Wrote about Saipan.
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Maurice Brosnan: As a film, ‘Saipan’ stands up. For the truth, we have real sport
Saipan is a good movie. So does the inaccurate depiction of so many people and events matter?
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/soccer/arid-41773049.html
5 months ago
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Report from Thurles. Don't try to understand Munster final madness - just feel it
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Maurice Brosnan: Don't try to understand Munster final madness — just feel it
Dingle’s dramatic win over St Finbarr’s in an electrifying Munster final delivered chaos, emotion and one of the great modern GAA spectacles
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41756018.html
6 months ago
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An objectively hilarious game • Aviva crowd cheering the TMO review of O’Brien • Six cards shown and one magically un-shown • Bernard Jackman casually dropping that Marx will announced as player of the year • Rassie Erasmus operating with real-time internet brain
6 months ago
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Love the fact Ireland are just watching the goal over and over again, like the rest of us
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6 months ago
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Irish players have been heading to the AFL and NFL combines in growing numbers. What is the interview process really like? Spoke to Mark Jackson and Nicholas Walsh about the wild questions they ask and why
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How often would you wash your jeans? The odd questions that can decide a sporting career
When Irish hopefuls try out for pro outfits in the NFL or Aussie Rules, there are copious curveballs thrown in their direction. The first lesson is to step outside your comfort zone - and fast
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41740854.html
7 months ago
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Before yesterday, Sean O’Shea hadn’t taken a single shot on his left foot in 2025. In the biggest game of their season, during that outrageous spell, he went for it and nailed a two. The flow state!
11 months ago
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Wrote about Con O'Callaghan: what makes him different in the words of his club, college and county team-mates and the numbers to prove it. This year: 39 shots, 35 points. Outrageous.
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11 months ago
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Irish Examiner
about 1 year ago
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'It was fairytale stuff': The last team Mick O'Dwyer managed
The last team Mick O'Dwyer managed was a Waterville-Dromid U14 team in 2014. They won that year's Kerry County League Division 8 title. For many of those players, it's an experience they hold close to their heart.
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The Irish Examiner football podcast is available now. Strong stuff from Paul Rouse on the Leitrim situation. Plus a review of the weekend, man-management and the art of dropping players 🎧
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The Gaelic Football Show: Leitrim fail to field, the Wild West, Clucko's return
Paul Rouse, Maurice Brosnan and James Horan review events throughout all the divisions - including Leitrim's failure to fulfil their fixture -- after a hectic weekend of Allianz League action elsewher...
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41594857.html
about 1 year ago
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It is 25 years since Mark Carroll won gold at the European Indoor Championships. Caught up with him this week to chat about why that isn't his favourite race, coaching, doping and properly punishing yourself.
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The plan, the prep and the moment of truth: A Hall of Famer’s guide to properly punishing yourself
Every element of his work now is shaped by his own experience. As a runner, it got under his skin. What about as a coach?
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/othersport/arid-41589214.html
about 1 year ago
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Spoke to a really engaging Shane Walsh, seems to be in great form on and off the pitch. How being a Galway footballer has changed, his injury trouble last year and Pádraic Joyce's football brain.
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Shane Walsh: 'When I came in, people were saying, ‘Go away to America’'
At the beginning of his intercounty career, Shane Walsh walked into a weary Galway. Now everything is different
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41586091.html
about 1 year ago
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Finally, data from the new rules 🚨 24 championship v 25 league 📈Shots up marginally 49.9 to 56.2 (54.2 in 23) ✖️No change in average scores (31) 🔼Big jump in contested/long KOs ⛔️Handpass:kickpass ratio 3.3 (3.4 24) 🔴Fouls up (31 vs 24)
over 1 year ago
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Really enlightening chat with Lara Gillespie. What a star. Learned something about the challenges that come with being an Irish cyclist, race craft, commitment and why medals matter. Interview 👇
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Lara Gillespie: ‘I am known as a nomad on my team. I'm a bit more chaotic than other cyclists because of where I am from’
Gillespie was speaking before she made history last Thursday as the first Irish cyclist to win an elite title at the European track championships
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/othersport/arid-41575096.html
over 1 year ago
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John Cooney’s tragic death leaves behind a sport struggling with its own mortality
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John Cooney’s tragic death leaves behind a sport struggling with its own mortality
When a boxer dies due to injuries suffered in the ring, the sport does not stop. The atmosphere around it, however, shifts markedly. An ever-present but abstract risk is suddenly tangible
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/othersport/arid-41574649.html
over 1 year ago
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City deserve serious credit to be able to keep making these collapses so entertaining
over 1 year ago
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Crunched the numbers for minutes played by Irish props this season and for Ireland in 2024. What is the solution to the Irish rugby prop problem?
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over 1 year ago
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AFLW is far from the greatest threat to Ladies’ football
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AFLW is far from the greatest threat to Ladies’ football
Players are leaving inter-county football for reasons other than to play in the AFLW.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41562556.html
over 1 year ago
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Alcaraz 🤯 this is absolutely sensational sport
over 1 year ago
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Cuala and Errigal Ciarán give a glimpse of what the new game can’t afford to lose
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Cuala and Errigal Ciarán give a glimpse of what the new game can’t afford to lose
None of this is to say the game doesn’t need fixing. The last two weeks of gripping club clashes simply served as reminders of things that we don’t want to lose in the process.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41557336.html
over 1 year ago
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Crokes played their part in a cracker. They didn't lose because of their manager or game plan. That doesn't make it hurt any less.
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O'Shea and Crokes are left with a haunting hurt
History has taught us that some things never change. Kerry and Tyrone can serve up epics. Class forwards are perpetually valuable. In Newbridge, Errigal Ciarán's risk earned them all of the reward.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41552023.html
over 1 year ago
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What will Grand Slam Track do for athletics?
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What will Grand Slam Track do for athletics?
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Gabby Thomas, Cole Hocker, Josh Kerr and Yared Nuguse are among those to have signed up to Michael Johnson's new track and field league but many big games are still missing.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/othersport/arid-41549434.html
over 1 year ago
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Eoghan
over 1 year ago
Made a linktree rounding up all my recent pieces for the Examiner: Best podcasts of 2024, music books, talking points, faves, live reviews, and ones to watch (plus a playlist)
linktr.ee/oseoghan
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Irish Examiner
over 1 year ago
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The Gaelic Football Show: up and running with the new rules
James Horan, Maurice Brosnan and Paul Rouse analyse a big first weekend of the season.
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Declan O'Sullivan. Ian Keatley. Joshua Zirkzee. The survival guide after being booed by your own fans
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The survival guide after being booed by your own fans
Like Ian Keatley with Munster and Declan O'Sullivan with Kerry, there is a way back for Joshua Zirkzee about being booed by the Manchester United supporters.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/soccer/arid-41548036.html
over 1 year ago
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