Liam Kearns
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Irish name | Liam Ó Ciarán | ||
| Sport | Gaelic football | ||
| Position | ? | ||
| Born | 1962 Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland |
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| Years | Club | ||
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| Club titles | |||
| Kerry titles | 1 | ||
| Munster titles | 0 | ||
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| Years | County | ||
| Kerry | |||
Liam Kearns is a Gaelic football manager and the current manager of the Tipperary senior football team. He previously managed Limerick and Laois.
Tralee man Kearns, whose mother is from Laois, was appointed as Mick O'Dwyer’s successor in September 2006. He previously managed Limerick for six years and helped to raise the county’s profile in that time. In being appointed he saw off the challenge of former Laois star Pat Roe, who had a successful spell in charge of Wexford.
Liam Kearns coached Na Piarsaigh to the Limerick U21 Football Championship in 1997, the club's only U21 football county title, a team that contained Declan Lynch (Head of Sports Medicine Bath Rugby), Mike Prendergast (Assistant Coach to Grenoble), Ian Costello (Former Backs Coach to Munster) and captained by Comdt Joe Mullins.
Kearns is highly regarded as a manager and coach and during his spell with Limerick he turned them into the second team in Munster as they outshone Cork.
He managed the Limerick under 21 side to successive Munster titles and to an All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship final appearance. In 2003 he led Limerick to a Division 2 National Football League 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 was in charge when Limerick beat Laois in a Division 1 National Football League tie at the Gaelic Grounds and that year Limerick reached the Munster Senior Football Championship final which they lost on a replay to Kerry.
In 2010 he led Aherlow to the Tipperary Senior Football Championship.
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