Maurice Brosnan
@m-brosnan.bsky.social
Irish Examiner senior sportswriter 🗞️📱📹
Podcast: Rory McIlroy’s decade-long dance with Augusta, golf and Ireland www.irishexaminer.com/sport/golf/a...
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.
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Nothing demonstrates the funny way that men talk to each other like the Masters www.irishexaminer.com/sport/golf/a...
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.
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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: www.rte.ie/player/movie...
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...
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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”
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.
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.
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 www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/ar... (€)
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.
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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 🎬
How do you make a Champions League player? Enjoyed talking to John Caulfield and Mikey McCullagh about Alex Murphy. www.irishexaminer.com/sport/soccer...
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?
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The Games Intelligence Unit is up and running for hurling and Gaelic football. First report will be after the league. www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/ar...
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
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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.”
A blow for sportswriting in Super Bowl week should remind us who really wins www.irishexaminer.com/sport/others...
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.
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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
Find someone who loves you the way Donegal loves Michael Murphy
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.
Miguel Delaney@migueldelaney.bsky.social · 8mo agoThe drama and abrupt changes of all this are undercut by there just being too much information to take in.
SCENES! 🔴⚪ Benfica goalkeeper scores at the death to keep them in the Champions League! #UCL Mourinho with the ballboy 🤣
Eight observations and predictions for the 2026 hurling season www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/ar...
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
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Piece from yesterday. When the aliens come, show them the All-Ireland club final. www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/ar...
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
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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.”
An All-Ireland cracker awaits, but how close is club GAA to inter-county? www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/ar...
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
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Piece on how St Brigid’s will defend this Sunday. There is also a video interview with coach Evan Talty. www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/ar...
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
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"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
Report from Thurles. Don't try to understand Munster final madness - just feel it www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/ar...
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
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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
Love the fact Ireland are just watching the goal over and over again, like the rest of us
