Aaron Kernan

Aaron Kernan, born on 16 December 1983, is an Irish Gaelic football coach and former player who spent his whole playing career with the Crossmaglen Rangers club in County Armagh and with the Armagh county team. He joined the Crossmaglen senior side in 2001 and retired after their 2023 Ulster quarter-final defeat to Trillick, having collected 18 Armagh county medals, 8 Ulster club medals and 3 All-Ireland club medals along the way, in 2007, 2011 and 2012. He joined the Armagh senior panel in 2004 and broke into the team in 2005 under his father Joe Kernan as manager, the year Armagh won the National Football League; he won four Ulster championships with the county and was named All Stars Young Footballer of the Year in 2005. He also played for Ireland in the 2008 International Rules Series in Australia. After retiring from inter-county football in 2014 he moved into coaching, first with Sligo and later with Meath.