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Birth name

Michael Joseph Kiernan

Date of birth

17 January 1961 (age 63)

Place of birth

Cork, Ireland

School

Presentation Brothers College, Cork (PBC)

Notable relative(s)

Tom Kiernan (uncle)
Mick Lane (uncle)

Rugby union career

Senior career
Position(s)	Centre
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
	Dolphin RFC		()
International career
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
1982–1991	Ireland	43	(308)
1983	British Lions	3	(0)

Michael Joseph Kiernan (born 17 January 1961)^[1] is a former Ireland international rugby union player.

He had 43 caps for Ireland, from 1982 to 1991, scoring 6 tries, 40 conversions, 62 penalties and 6 drop goals, in an aggregate of 308 points. He was called for the 1987 Rugby World Cup, playing in three games and scoring 1 try, 7 conversions, 5 penalties and 1 drop goal, in an aggregate of 37 points.^[2]

In 1983 he toured New Zealand with the British and Irish Lions and at the time played club rugby for Dolphin RFC. His uncle, Tom Kiernan, was also an Irish and rugby union international and Lions player, as was his maternal uncle Mick Lane.^[3]

References

^ Griffiths, John (1987). The Phoenix Book of International Rugby Records. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. pp. 12:24. ISBN 0-460-07003-7.
^ "Michael Kiernan Ireland". ESPN. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
^ "Centre of attention: Michael Kiernan". Irish Examiner. 22 February 2014.

External links

Mike Kiernan at ESPNscrum

v t e Ireland squad – 1987 Rugby World Cup
Forwards	Anderson Carr Collins Fitzgerald Francis Glennon Kingston Langbroek Lenihan (c) Matthews MacDonald McCoy McGrath Orr Smith Spillane
Backs	Bradley Crossan Dean Doyle Irwin Kiernan MacNeill Mullin Rainey Ringland Ward
Coaches: Doyle and Davidson

v t e British Lions – 1986 IRFB Centenary Match vs The Rest
Forwards	Nigel Carr (Ire) John Beattie (Sco) John Jeffrey (Sco) Donal Lenihan (Ire) Wade Dooley (Eng) Des Fitzgerald (Ire) Colin Deans (Sco) (c) Jeff Whitefoot (Wal) Iain Paxton (Sco) (bench) Iain Milne (Sco) (bench)
Backs	Gavin Hastings (Sco) Trevor Ringland (Ire) Brendan Mullin (Ire) John Devereux (Wal) Rory Underwood (Eng) John Rutherford (Sco) Robert Jones (Wal) Malcolm Dacey (Wal) (bench) Richard Hill (Eng) (bench) Mike Kiernan (Ire) (bench) Steve Brain (Eng) (bench)
Coach	Mick Doyle

v t e British Lions – 1983 New Zealand tour
Forwards	Bainbridge Beattie Boyle Butler Calder Colclough Deans Fitzgerald (c) Jeavons Jones Lenihan McLoughlin Milne Norster O'Driscoll Paxton Price Squire Stephens Winterbottom
Backs	Ackerman Baird Campbell Carleton Evans Hare Holmes Irwin Kiernan Laidlaw MacNeill Melville Ringland Rutherford Smith Woodward
Coach	Telfer

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