Full name | Ronan Kieran Kearney | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 3 May 1957 | ||||||||||||||||
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]
Full name | Ronan Kieran Kearney | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 3 May 1957 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Kilkenny, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 3 in (191 cm) | ||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||
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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]