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Tony Leen

Donegal v Armagh - GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Round 2

The Last Eight: Kerry have the All-Ireland quarter-final they need - even if it's mined with trouble

Monday's quarter-final draw has delivered the sort of lop-sided draw that will have Galway, Armagh, Derry and Clare salivating at the very real chance of a road to the All-Ireland final.

Mon, 13 Jun, 2022

Brian Hayes celebrates scoring goal 1/6/2022

Cork minor footballers show their bouncebackability. Can Kerry do likewise?

Cork triumph over Kerry in Munster MFC final with barnstorming performance

Thu, 02 Jun, 2022

'Spike' O'Sullivan: I'm nearly there now. I’m almost at the pinnacle

When O’Sullivan insists he’s never trained as hard in his life ahead of the WBA world middleweight title fight on Saturday, he is saying it less as a boxing trope and more as a cold matter of fact

Wed, 25 May, 2022

Kevin Flahive and David Clifford 7/5/2022

Fifty minutes of maybe-things-aren't-that-bad from Cork. So what comes next?

Kerry have eyes on a bigger prize. For Cork, a hum-drum qualifier against moderate opposition is the sort of next step that frequently brings out the dishevelled worst in them

Sun, 08 May, 2022

Tony Leen: Only solution to Cork v Kerry venue saga is a return to Páirc Uí Rinn

Whether the County Board executive in Cork was on the same page as their footballers and management is a moot point now – they’re duty-bound now to climb into the foxhole

Fri, 01 Apr, 2022

Republic of Ireland v Luxembourg - FIFA World Cup 2022 Qualifier

Tony Leen: Stephen Kenny will be given the time to turn us into believers

That things are ‘different’ has been sold as better, as if to indicate that Stephen Kenny is the only way we can move beyond working the channels and second balls.

Mon, 29 Mar, 2021

Tipperary v Cork - Munster GAA Football Senior Championship semi-final

A strange kind of beauty in Cork's hard work and discipline

Before the door of Dressing Room No 3 underneath Semple Stadium’s Old Stand closed towards us, the first four of Liam Kearns’ words to his numbed Tipperary players seeped out.

Mon, 28 May, 2018

Buckling under the weight of Ireland’s greatest noughties moments

So, sports fans are outraged that Jermaine Defoe is missing from the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year award shortlist? (According to click king Mr Google Analytics). Wait til they see this evening what the chainsaw gang in Montrose have done to the array of Ireland’s Greatest Sporting Moments in the 2000s, writes Tony Leen.

Thu, 30 Nov, 2017