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WHERE ARE THEY NOW? AIDAN KEARNEY THEN: Aidan Kearney made 26 appearances for <strong>Leinster</strong> across the 2002/03 and 2003/04 seasons. NOW: He is currently looking for a new job in rugby, living in Bayside, married to Jenna with three children Ryan (8), Max (6), and Lola (1 1 / 2 ). 62 | www.leinsterrugby.ie
Aidan Kearney was something of a physical phenom back in the late 1990s. He moved from St Paul’s College in Raheny to St Michael’s College for the final two years of school which coincided with a change in the age limit, enabling Aidan to play both years of the Senior Cup In 1998, he shifted gears to UCD on a two-year scholarship and was also involved in the IRFU Academy where Aidan joined the likes of Paul O’Connell, Donncha O’Callaghan, Brian O’Driscoll, Kieran Campbell, Adrian Flavin, Jerry Flannery and Paddy Wallace. The 6’ 7”, 18 stone, and more, second row was a man before his time in the sense that he represented the Ireland sevens. “I suppose I was quite athletic and quite fast. Denis McBride and Kurt McQuilkin were running the sevens programme. They were in and out to the IRFU Academy sessions,” says Aidan. It was there they would have noticed a specimen, whose measurables screamed international second row forward, with the God-given gifts to roam the sevens circuit. “It was funny. We were training up in UCD in our wet gear in around two or three degrees of cold weather. We went from there to 30 degrees heat in Dubai,” he recalls. “Willie Anderson was a coach at the Academy. He asked me to join Dungannon which I thought was strange at the time. In hindsight, why would it be strange when one of your coaches wants you to play for his club? “It was an opportunity to be coached by Willie and play with Paddy Johns, who had come back from Saracens at that point. “I was also moving from an Academy contract to an Ulster Development contract, the next step-up. That was a nobrainer for me because, believe it or not, Paddy was my Ireland hero growing up. “I ended up there for three years and, in the year of foot and mouth, won the All-Ireland League, beating Cork Con in the final in 2001. With the 1998 U-19 World Cup and All- Ireland League medals draped around his neck, Aidan had all the appearance of a sure bet to have a long and shining professional career. However, Aidan never made it beyond the bench in his two years at Ulster, www.leinsterrugby.ie | 63
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