Ronan Kearney
Irish rugby union player
Rugby player
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.[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]
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References
External links
- Ronan Kearney at ESPNscrum