| Full name | Ronan Kieran Kearney | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1957-05-03) 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.
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. He played against the Wallabies at Lansdowne Road in 1984 and featured twice in the 1986 Five Nations.
See also
References
- "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
- Ronan Kearney at ESPNscrum