Brendan O'Brien

Six Nations Podcast: not to be for Ireland after a thrilling final day It’s a Triple Crown but no title for Ireland as an epic Six Nations comes to an end. Simon Lewis and Brendan O’Brien run through Ireland’s defeat of Scotland and try to sum up a truly memorable Champi...

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Ireland look reborn and France conceding 96 points in their last two games and finishing as champions just about summed it up

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Forget Paris: Ireland cap a remarkable five weeks with Triple Crown Andy Farrell has overseen an impressive transition since the opening-night defeat to France.

From despair to triumph in five weeks

Piece on how Ireland's superb defeat of Scotland caps an incredible swing in fortunes

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Watch: Ruby Walsh breaks down how tactics have changed down the years Our racing columnist Ruby Walsh chats to Brendan O'Brien ahead of another helping of festival racing to come on Thursday.

Today's Cheltenham chat with Ruby Walsh where our @ExaminerSport columnist breaks down how tech and rule changes have transformed racing

Simple, brilliant insight as always

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Conan the contrarian: 'Mystic Jack' happy to be proven right as he aims for last word The Ireland back row has played Scotland nine times and won all nine but he knows Saturday could be Ireland's sternest challenge in some time

Fantastic headline!

(Not mine, unfortunately)

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Jack Conan as entertaining and interesting as always this week

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Watch: Ruby Walsh explains difference between Cheltenham inside and outside the rails During his career as a Ruby Walsh never really got to experience to mania around Cheltenham.

Con Houlihan, that immortal line about Italia '90, and what the jockeys can't experience until they quit the saddle

Today's Cheltenham chat with Ruby Walsh

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Back row shuffles pointing the way forward for Andy Farrell's Ireland Josh van der Flier has been a foundation stone for Farrell's Ireland backrow but even he has found himself without a place to sit as the head coach plays musical chairs with his selections

Lots of focus on Ireland's musical chairs at No.10, on the wings and in the front row in this Six Nations.

The back row has been in some flux too

Piece here on what that says about where the team is going

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Watch: Ruby Walsh on crowds, covid and Cheltenham Our champion columnist on criticisms of the fan experience at Cheltenham in recent years, and on how the festival’s covid experience has shaped it.

Has Cheltenham turned a corner?

Irish Examiner racing columnist Ruby Walsh on the fan experience, and how Covid fed into some of the problems the festival experienced in the years after

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Ireland v Wales, Six Nations, live minute-by-minute updates Join us for live coverage of Ireland's Aviva Stadium clash with Wales.

The Irish Examiner Ireland-Wales Six Nations liveblog is up and running with all the info you need to know before the 8.10pm kick-off

Includes a quick look at Jamison Gibson's remarkable journey on the night he wins his 50th cap

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Nick Timoney: 'There were times I was fairly sure I wouldn't play for Ireland again' Timoney was electric off the pine when Ireland found some belated rhythm in Paris on opening night, not quite so influential when introduced against Italy at home, but impactful third time around in t...

'There were times I was fairly sure I wouldn't play for Ireland again'

Nick Timoney is on the verge of a first Six Nations start this Friday

He's 30 years of age

Another lesson in the value of patience and perseverance in the current Ireland squad

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Better late than never for 'vindicated' Stuart McCloskey It's 10 years since McCloskey learned that moments like he's having right now for Ireland do not last forever

“Ah, I don't know what the craic was with Joe [Schmidt]. I don't think we saw eye to eye...."

Open, honest stuff from Stuart McCloskey who is tearing it up for Ireland ten years after a "tainted" debut against England

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Six Nations Podcast: Ireland destroy England at Twickenham Brendan O’Brien and Simon Lewis talk through Ireland's historic victory at Twickenham

Pod with Simon Lewis dissecting Ireland's extraordinary return to form against England in Twickenham

One of the great days

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England v Ireland, Six Nations live minute-by-minute updates Can Andy Farrell's side back up last weekend's victory over Italy by claiming a famous win at Twickenham?

The Range Rovers are parked, the wicker baskets are out so it must be England-Ireland at Twickenham time

Come join our Irish Examiner Sport minute-by-minute liveblog

Kick-off is at 2.10 but we're already up and running...

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Six Nations Podcast: England v Ireland preview Brendan O’Brien and Simon Lewis talk through Andy Farrell’s decision to start Jack Crowley in Twickenham, the other changes and the abuse directed this week at Edwin Edogbo

Latest Six Nations pod with Simon Lewis as we chat through Jack Crowley's return to the No.10 jersey for Saturday's game against England in Twickenham

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Ireland v Italy, live Six Nations, minute-by-minute Can Ireland kick-start their campaign against an in-form Azzurri side at the Aviva Stadium after last week's false start in Paris?

It's Ireland v Italy, but not as we know it

Definite buzz about this one

Come join us for the minute-by-minute...

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Super Bowl snooze shows the truth for sports fans: we want heavyweights The low-wattage Santa Clara game was a tough watch for the neutral - especially on this side of the Atlantic.

The Super Bowl snooze, US Steel and Jack Nicholson's electric turn as Colonel Nathan R Jessup...

'You want me on that wall, you need me on that wall..."

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Agwi pain hurts Ireland as Syria confirm Davis Cup drop On Sunday, Michael Agwi fell short of Taym Al Azmeh as he struggled for the sort of form that had set the UL Arena alight in 2024

Lyndsey Vonn, the GAA and Ireland's Davis Cup player Michael Agwi

To play or not to play: sport's eternal wrangle with fitness, injury and readiness

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From Drico to Henry to Adeleke - 10 times Stade de France stirred Irish sporting soul There is hardly a venue on the planet that has come to frame the fortunes of modern Irish sport more than the Stade de France.

Irish sport should own shares in the Stade de France at this stage!

Here’s ten of our best and worst days there ahead of tonight’s Six Nations opener…

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Meet the Team Ireland athletes competing at the 2026 Winter Olympics The quartet was announced on Thursday afternoon ahead of the Milan-Cortina Games that get underway with the opening ceremony on February 6th

Meet the four athletes competing for Ireland at next month's Winter Olympics...

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Rugby podcast special: a 'bun fight' in a cold Edinburgh for the Six Nations launch Brendan O’Brien and Simon Lewis check in with all the latest Six Nations news from the tournament launch in a freezing and wet Edinburgh

Took 20 minutes to chat through all the news and views from the Edinburgh launch of this year's Six Nations with Simon Lewis

Ireland's prop crisis, France's, ehm ... prop crisis, expectations, anticipations and a bit more besides

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Fabien Galthie not interested in Irish injury woes The France head coach has issues of his own, at tighthead for one.

Managed to write something about Fabien Galthie without using the term 'Gallic shrug'

It's about all that was missing when he was asked about Ireland's injury issues

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Connacht’s new gaff

Not like the old gaff!

OFI looking at the Irish-American route to make up €2m LA Games  gap Costs for an Olympic Games have inevitably gone up due to inflationary pressures and the extra distances involved in the next Olympics in Los Angeles in two years’ time.

Olympic medals don't pay for themselves...

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Clayton McMillan: 'Rich history doesn't give Munster a rite of passage' The province suffered a huge setback last Saturday in the form of a 31-29 Investec Champions Cup defeat at home to Castres that knocked them out of the Champions Cup.

“We have got to earn our right to be there"

A brutally honest Clayton McMillan fronted up again for media on Monday after Munster's Champions Cup exit over the weekend

No excuses, no polish. That's good

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Rugby podcast special: Huge Munster set-back and Leinster march on Brendan O'Brien and Simon Lewis analyse a consequential weekend of Champions Cup action.

Latest @ExaminerSport Rugby Podcast Special offering after a huge week of Champions Cup drama

Features far more Challenge Cup talk than anyone could have predicted, though

Oh, Munster!

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Inner battle the hardest to win when facing a two-time Olympic champion Kellie McLoughlin, a 27-year-old former Dublin under camogie player and footballer, lost to two-time Olympic gold medallist Kellie Harrington in the lightweight final at the National Elites on Saturda...

Ever wonder what it’s like to get into a ring with a two-time Olympic champion?

Kellie McLoughlin has. She spent six months thinking about a fight with Kellie Harrington

Now she knows

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Kellie Harrington claims 12th Irish Elite title on return from retirement The Olympic champion has yet to decide on what comes next.

Kellie Harrington has won Olympic, World and European finals

But fighting for a first Irish title on returning from retirement?

Now that's pressure

“Today I felt like the underdog and I love that feeling of feeling like the underdog"

Piece here...

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'A moment I'll never forget': Erin King named new Ireland captain at age of 22 The former sevens star was revealed as the new skipper on Thursday afternoon.

What an honour for Erin King so early in her career!

She is even younger than Brian O'Driscoll, who was 23 when he was given the armband

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Andrew Porter proves a handy man to have in a tight spot for Leinster How many players can say they have been called up for one British and Irish Lions tour as a tighthead and another as a loose? And a longer reverse migration isn’t something he would rule out

"As a rugby player you have a small bit of autonomy and then you have... You've got to do as you're told as well"

Andrew Porter on switching over and back from tighthead to loosehead, bloody ears and THAT scrum disaster against the Springboks

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Charlie Smyth expecting elevation to New Orleans Saints active roster Former Down footballer Charlie Smyth kicked a game-winning field goal for the New Orleans Saints against the Carolina Panthers on Sunday.

It's just onwards and upwards for Co. Down's Charlie Smyth

Great to see

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