Terry Kearns (1945 – 15 October 2020) was an Irish

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er. At club level he played with St Vincent's and was an All-Ireland Championship winner with the Meath county team.

Playing career

A member of the St Vincent's club in Ardcath,

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, Kearns was full-back with the Meath minor football team for three successive seasons from 1961 until 1963. 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

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. Kearns won a second Leinster Senior Championship medal in

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; however, Meath were subsequently beaten by Kerry in the All-Ireland final.

Honours

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All-Ireland Senior Football Championship The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (SFC) () is the premier inter-county competition in Gaelic football. County (Gaelic games), County teams compete against each other and the winner is declared All-Ireland Champions. Organised by the ...

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Leinster Senior Football Championship The Leinster Senior Football Championship, known simply as the Leinster Championship and shortened to Leinster SFC, is an annual inter-county Gaelic football competition organised by the Leinster GAA, Leinster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Asso ...

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Leinster Junior Football Championship The Leinster Junior Football Championship was a junior "knockout" competition in the game of Gaelic football played in the province of Leinster in Ireland. The series of games were organised by the Leinster Council. The competition ran from 1905 ...

(1): 1964

References

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