Ronan Kearney
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Irish rugby union player
Rugby player
| Full name | Ronan Kieran Kearney | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1957年05月03日) 3 May 1957 (age 67) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Kilkenny, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (191 cm) | ||||||||||||||||
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Ronan Kieran Kearney (born 5 March 1957) is an Irish former international rugby union player.
A farmer from County Kilkenny, Kearney played his rugby with Kilkenny RFC, Wanderers and Leinster.[1] [2]
Kearney won four Ireland caps as a back-rower during the 1980s. His debut came as an injury replacement for Willie Duggan, another Kilkenny product, in Ireland's final 1982 Five Nations fixture against France in Paris.[3] He played against the Wallabies at Lansdowne Road in 1984 and featured twice in the 1986 Five Nations.[4]
See also
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ "A proud tradition carved in Marble". Irish Independent . 17 January 2009.
- ^ "Reserve Ronan relishes recall". Sunday Tribune . 12 January 1986.
- ^ "Duggan blow for the Irish". Daily Mirror . 20 March 1982.
- ^ "Rugby union". Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph . 6 January 1986.
External links
[edit ]- Ronan Kearney at ESPNscrum