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| Irish name | Liam Ó Ciaráin | ||
| Sport | Gaelic football | ||
| Position | ? | ||
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1962 (age 61–62) Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland | ||
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Liam Kearns was a Gaelic football manager and former player. He managed Offaly from 2022 until his death in 2023.
Kearns previously managed the Limerick, Laois and Tipperary county teams, as well as several clubs in different counties. He led Tipperary to a 2016 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final, the county's first since 1935. After leaving Tipperary and before being appointed Offaly manager, Kearns managed Clann na nGael GAA (Roscommon).
Early life
Kearns's father Ollie captained Kerry to an All-Ireland MFC final in the late 1950s.[citation needed] His father Ollie was then a wing-forward on the Graiguecullen team that won their last Laois Senior Football Championship title in 1965.[1]
Playing career
As a player, Liam Kearns was a member of the Austin Stacks club and played for the Kerry minor team for two years, winning an All-Ireland Minor Football Championship (MFC) with them in 1980.[citation needed]
He graduated to become a member of the Kerry under-21 and senior football panels and won a Kerry Senior Football Championship medal with Austin Stacks in 1986.[citation needed]
Managerial career
Limerick
Kearns coached the Na Piarsaigh club to the Limerick Under-21 Football Championship in 1997, the club's only under-21 county football title. That team included Declan Lynch (Head of Sports Medicine Bath Rugby), Mike Prendergast (FC Grenoble assistant coach), Ian Costello (former Munster Rugby backs coach) and Comdt Joe Mullins, who captained it.
Kearns turned Limerick into the second team in Munster as they outflanked Cork.
He managed the Limerick under-21 team to successive Munster titles and to an appearance in the All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship final. In 2003 he led Limerick to a Division 2 National Football League (NFL) final, where they were beaten by Westmeath on the same day that Laois lost to Tyrone in the Division 1 decider.
The following year he led Limerick to a defeat of Laois in a Division 1 NFL tie at the Gaelic Grounds, and, that year, Limerick reached the Munster Senior Football Championship final, which they lost on a replay to Kerry.
He spent six years managing Limerick and helped to raise the county's profile.
Laois
Tralee man Kearns (whose mother is from Laois) was appointed Mick O'Dwyer's successor as senior Laois county football team manager in September 2006. In being appointed he saw off the challenge of former Laois player Pat Roe, who had a successful spell in charge of Wexford.[2] Laois reached the finals of both the O'Byrne Cup and Leinster SFC in his first season as manager: calls for Kearns to be sacked after one season, with former players and club delegates saying "the man has to go", went unheeded.[3] He lasted until August 2008.[4]
Tipperary
Kearns led Aherlow to the 2010 Tipperary Senior Football Championship title.[citation needed]
In November 2015, Kearns was named as manager of the Tipperary senior football team.[5][6][7] In June 2016, Tipperary reached the Munster SFC final after a 3–15 to 2–16 win against Cork. They went on to defeat Derry by a scoreline of 1–21 to 2–17 in round 3A of the qualifiers to reach the All-Ireland SFC quarter-finals for the first time.[8] On 31 July 2016, Tipperary defeated Galway in the All-Ireland SFC quarter-final at Croke Park to reach a first All-Ireland SFC semi-final since 1935.[9][10][11] On 21 August 2016, Mayo defeated Tipperary in the semi-final by a scoreline of 2–13 to 0–14.[12][13][14]
On 8 April 2017, Tipperary won the Division 3 final of the 2017 National Football League after a 3–19 to 0–19 win against Louth at Croke Park.[15]
On 9 June 2019, Kearns resigned as Tipperary senior football team manager after defeat to Down in the 2019 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.[16]
After resigning as Tipperary manager, Kearns became manager of Roscommon GAA club Clann na nGael.[17]
Offaly
On 11 August 2022, Kearns was announced as Offaly manager, succeeding John Maughan.[18]
References
- ^ "Kearns reappointed as Laois manager". RTÉ. 10 August 2007.
The Austin Stacks clubman has strong Laois connections and his father Ollie was a wing forward on the Graiguecullen team that won the club's last Laois SFC title in 1965.
- ^ "Kearns appointed in Laois". Hogan Stand. 26 September 2006.
Liam Kearns was ratified as the new Laois football manager at a county board meeting on Monday night, September 25.
- ^ "Kearns reappointed as Laois manager". RTÉ. 10 August 2007.
- ^ "Kearns steps down as Laois boss". RTÉ. 7 August 2008.
- ^ "Liam Kearns appointed Tipperary football manager". RTÉ. 28 November 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
- ^ "'We can be right up with the big boys' — Liam Kearns has high hopes for Tipp". Irish Independent. 26 November 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
- ^ "Liam Kearns confirmed as new Tipperary football boss". Irish Examiner. 24 November 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
- ^ "Fightback takes Tipperary's footballers into their first ever All-Ireland quarter-final". Irish Examiner. 23 July 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
- ^ "History-makers Tipperary annihilate Galway to reach first All-Ireland semi since 1935". Irish Independent. 31 July 2016. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
- ^ "A new chapter in Tipperary's fairytale season". Irish Examiner. 1 August 2016. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
- ^ "Liam Kearns: 'A semi-final? We'd have told you to lie down in a darkened room'". Irish Examiner. 19 August 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
- ^ "Fairytale over for Tipperary as unconvincing Mayo progress to All-Ireland final". Irish Examiner. 21 August 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ^ "Mayo edge dogged Tipperary to book first All-Ireland final place since 2013". Irish Independent. 21 August 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ^ "I told them to come back here — to not let this be the end, says proud Kearns". Irish Independent. 22 August 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
- ^ "Kearns vows that Tipperary will only get better following stunning Croke Park success". The42.ie. 10 April 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
- ^ "Tipperary Press Release – Liam Kearns resignation". Tipperary GAA. 9 June 2019. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
- ^ "Premier ambitions — football finding its feet in hurling country once again". RTÉ. 2 December 2020.
Kearns, now managing Roscommon club Clann na nGael, is pragmatic about hurling's primacy in the county but believes that the current crop's achievements have re-established respect for football in Tipp.
- ^ "Liam Kearns confirmed as new Offaly manager". RTÉ. 11 August 2022.