Joe Kernan

Joe Kernan (born 8 April 1954) is an Irish former sportsman who played Gaelic football for his local club Crossmaglen Rangers and at senior level for the Armagh county team in the 1970s and 1980s. He made his senior Armagh debut in a Dr McKenna Cup game against Donegal in 1971, won Ulster medals in 1977, 1980 and 1982, and scored two goals in the All-Ireland final against Dublin that Armagh lost. He was awarded All Stars in 1977 and 1982 and retired in 1987 after an Ulster final defeat to Derry. With Crossmaglen Rangers he won five senior county championship titles between 1971 and 1988. As a manager he later guided Crossmaglen to three All-Ireland club titles, led Armagh to their first All-Ireland senior title in 2002 and managed Ulster and the Ireland international rules team. A biography of his story, Joe Kernan: Without a Shadow of Doubt, was published in 2011.