Terry Kearns

Terry Kearns
Personal information
Irish name Traolach O Ciaráin
Sport Gaelic Football
Position Midfield
Born 1945
Ardcath, County Meath, Ireland
Died 15 October 2020 (aged 75)
Bellewstown, County Meath, Ireland
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Club(s)
Years Club
 St Vincent's
Club titles
Meath titles 0
Inter-county(ies)
Years County
 Meath
Inter-county titles
Leinster titles 2
All-Irelands 1
NFL 0
All Stars 0

Terry Kearns (1945 – 15 October 2020) was an Irish Gaelic footballer. At club level he played with St Vincent's and was an All-Ireland Championship winner with the Meath county team.[1][2]

Playing career

A member of the St Vincent's club in Ardcath, County Meath, Kearns was full-back with the Meath minor football team for three successive seasons from 1961 until 1963.[3] He was centre-back on the county's junior team that won the Leinster Junior Championship in 1964, before joining the under-21 team the following year. Kearns first played for the Meath senior team in a challenge game in December 1964; however, it would be 1967 before he became a regular member of the team. That year he claimed his first Leinster Senior Championship medal before winning an All-Ireland Championship medal at midfield after a 1-9 to 0-9 defeat of Cork in the final.[4] Kearns won a second Leinster Senior Championship medal in 1970; however, Meath were subsequently beaten by Kerry in the All-Ireland final.

Honours

Meath

References

  1. ^ "Meath All-Ireland winner Terry Kearns dies aged 75". Irish Times. 15 October 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Meath GAA mourns All-Ireland winner Terry Kearns". Irish Examiner. 15 October 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  3. ^ "Kearns has lorry load of memories". Drogheda Independent. 16 November 2007. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  4. ^ "The Men of '67: Terry Kearns". Hogan Stand. 8 September 2017. Retrieved 3 November 2020.