Ronan Kearney | |
Full Name: | Ronan Kieran Kearney |
Birth Date: | 3 May 1957 |
Birth Place: | Kilkenny, Ireland |
Height: | 6 ft 3 in |
Position: | Flanker / No. 8 |
Repyears1: | 1982–86 |
Repcaps1: | 4 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
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]