Joe Kernan (Gaelic footballer)
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| Sport | Gaelic football | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Born |
8 April 1954 Crossmaglen, County Armagh, Northern Ireland |
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| Nickname | Big Joe | ||
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| Years | Club | ||
| 1971–1988 | Crossmaglen | ||
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| Armagh titles | 5 | ||
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| Years | County | ||
| 1971–1987 | Armagh | ||
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| Ulster titles | 3 | ||
| All-Irelands | 0 | ||
| NFL | 0 | ||
| All Stars | 2 | ||
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Joe Kernan (born 8 April 1954) is a former sportsperson from County Armagh in Northern Ireland. He played Gaelic football with his local club Crossmaglen Rangers and with the Armagh senior inter-county team in the 1970s and 1980s. Awarded All Stars in 1977 and 1982, he is the former manager of Armagh's senior football team, and led them to the 2002 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship title, their first before retiring in July 2007 after the team lost to Derry. He currently manages Ulster.
Joe Kernan was born in Dublin, in 1954. The second son in a family of three boys and two girls, his father died when he was just 11 years old and his mother died in late 2007. Kernan was educated locally and later boarded in Omeath and then attended the Abbey Christian Brothers Grammar School in Newry. Following his secondary education there were few employment prospects in Northern Ireland and Kernan considered emigrating to Australia where three of his siblings had already gone. In the end he decided to stay in Crossmaglen and in the 1980s he ran a bar in the town. He closed the pub in the early 1990s and currently works as a self-employed estate agent and mortgage broker. In December 1976 Joe married Patricia Morgan, in 1983 the first of their five sons was born, they are Stephen, Aaron, Tony, Paul & Ross. The four eldest boys are well known due to their successes in football with Crossmaglen Rangers and they are on the Armagh panel.
Kernan played his club football with the Crossmaglen Rangers team and, in time, would become one of the most celebrated players with the club. He won five senior county championship titles between 1971 and 1988. Kernan retired from club football in 1988.
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