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Ronan Kearney

b. 1957

Irish rugby union player

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Born 1957. Ronan Kearney is a rugby union player.

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.

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Who is Ronan Kearney?

Irish rugby union player

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Ronan Kearney was born on 3 May 1957.

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· Wikipedia: Ronan Kearney

· Wikidata: Q125804193

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