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13 unusual facts about Kearney


Bishop Kearney

Daniel O'Kearney (died 1778), Roman Catholic Bishop of Limerick, Ireland

Chris Flood

He is the uncle of Irish international ultra runner and professional poker player Dara O'Kearney.

Christian Peter

Only a month before the draft, he notched his eighth conviction in seven years, this time for grabbing a woman's throat in a Kearney, Nebraska bar.

Dara O'Kearney

He is the son of Irish language activist and writer Sean Ua Cearnaigh, and nephew of Irish politician Chris Flood.

On the poker front, O'Kearney won the 2008 European Deepstack Poker Championship, defeating a high quality field that included Joe Beevers, Julian Thew, Tony Baitson, Arnaud Mattern, John Falconer, Dave Colclough, Conor Tate, Owen Mullen, Mickey Wernick, Barny Boatman and Christy Smith.

Emily Susan Rapp

Rapp was raised in Laramie, Wyoming; Kearney, Nebraska; and Denver, Colorado; by her father, a Lutheran pastor, and her mother, a school nurse.

Glenwood, Nebraska

Glenwood is located in southern Buffalo County, directly north of Kearney, the county seat.

Kearney, Missouri

Kearney was unofficially founded in the spring of 1856 by David T. Duncan and W. R. Cave, and was originally called Centerville.

The president of the railroad was Charles E. Kearney (although there is speculation that it was named after Kearney, Nebraska).

O'Kearney

Jacobus Ó Cethernaig, anglicised as James O'Kearney, 14th century Irish bishop

Dara O'Kearney (born 1965), Irish ultra runner and poker player.

Odessa, Nebraska

It is part of the Kearney, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Tri-Cities, Nebraska

The Tri-Cities in Nebraska is an informal grouping consisting of the cities of Grand Island, Hastings, and Kearney.


Australian rules football in Scotland

Champion Australian Rules players who were members of the Edinburgh Australians Club over the next decade or two were Victorian premiership players RH Morrison, AB Timms and GF Read (Geelong); Colin Campbell and ‘Gus’ Kearney ( Essendon).

Bernard W. Kearney

In 1959 Congress passed special legislation authorizing Kearney to accept and wear the Philippine Legion of Honor (Commander).

Burton L. French

Born in Carroll County, Indiana, French was the fourth of nine children and moved with his parents in 1880 to Kearney, Nebraska, and to Princeton, Idaho via San Francisco two years later.

Charles E. Kearney

Charles Esmond Kearney (March 8, 1820 - January 3, 1898) was the first president of the Kansas City and Cameron Railroad which as a subsidiary of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad and built the Hannibal Bridge establishing Kansas City, Missouri as the dominant city in the region.

Colm Kearney

Kearney has broad policy and consulting experience, serving as Senior Economic Advisor to Australian Federal Treasurer (Ministers for Finance) John Kerin and Federal Finance Minister Ralph Willis in the early 1990s.

Gregory Kearney

Born in Farmington, Maine, in 1957, Gregory Kearney attended Oak Grove-Coburn School, Vassalboro, Maine, and Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, where he was the staff cartoonist for the Daily Universe.

Hannah Kearney

Hannah Kearney (born February 26, 1986) is an American mogul skier who won a gold medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

James E. Kearney

Kearney graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in 1901, and then attended the Teachers College of Columbia University, where he earned a Regents license to teach in New York State.

Janis F. Kearney

Kearney was hired by the State of Arkansas in 1978, where she spent three years as a program manager for the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act program, and another six years as the director of information for the national headquarters of the Migrant Student Records Transfer System.

Joel T. Johnson

He is currently a member of the American College of Surgeons, American Medical Association and First Lutheran Church of Kearney and a former member of the Kearney Area Chamber of Commerce.

Jonathan Kearney

During this period Kearney held exhibitions in the famous 798 Art Zone of Beijing and in Shanghai, including the 6th Shanghai Biennale where he was part of the first ever Liverpool Biennial exhibition at the Shanghai Biennale.

Joshua Millner

Joshua Kearney Millner (born July 5, 1847, Dublin, Ireland – died November 16, 1931, Rathmines, Dublin, Ireland), also referred to as Jerry Millner, was a British shooter who represented Great Britain and Ireland at the

K15CZ

It broadcasts an analog signal on UHF channel 15 from a transmitter on East Kearney Street (MO 744) near Doling Park.

Kamil Witkowski

Witkowski played high school football in the United States for Bishop Kearney High School in Rochester, New York, USA.

Kearny Airport

Kearney Regional Airport, an airport near Kearney, Buffalo County, Nebraska, United States

Kevin Kearney

Kevin Kearney (born August 22, 1936 in Campsie, New South Wales) is an Australian analogue location sound recordist, film producer, director, actor and digital producer, director and editor.

KFXL-TV

Since June 12, 2009, KFXL-TV has also been carried in high definition on the digital subcarriers of most of the stations in the KHGI/NTV network--KHGI-DT2 in Kearney, Nebraska; KWNB-DT2 in Hayes Center, Nebraska; and KWNB-LD2 in McCook, Nebraska.

Last Tap Dance in Springfield

After the surgery, Homer rejects the optometrist's advice to take eye drops to keep his eyes from crusting over -- and ends up blind from his eyes scabbing over and tricked into driving to the liquor store to buy Jack Daniel's and "a carton of smokes" for Dolph, Jimbo, and Kearney (the latter of whom fools Homer into thinking he's Marge).

Leland Hickman

The event featured readers including: Todd Baron, Beverly Dahlen, Kathleen Fraser, Larry Kearney, Kevin Killian, Bill Mohr, Laura Moriarty

Leslie R. Landrum

Other concentrations include the Chilean species of the widespread genus Berberis, the usage of computer models in evaluating methods of phylogenetic analysis, and serving on a committee of botanists (including D.J. Pinkava) working on a new manual of the vascular plants of Arizona to replace the aging Arizona Flora by Kearney and Peebles (last updated in 1960).

Martha Kearney

Kearney was born in Dublin, and brought up in an academic environment: her father, the historian Hugh Kearney, taught first at Sussex and later at Edinburgh universities.

NRG Media

With the exception of their stations in Omaha, Grand Island/Kearney, and Lincoln, Nebraska and Wausau-Stevens Point, Wisconsin, NRG owns properties in small or medium, unrated markets.

Patrick Kearney

As time passed Hill and Kearney would more frequently argue, and Kearney would go out for long solitary drives in his Volkswagen Beetle or his truck.

Paul Kearney

However, Kearney was quickly signed-up by publisher Solaris Books, who contracted him to write a new fantasy epic entitled The Ten Thousand and based loosely on the Anabasis of Xenophon.

Pie Town, New Mexico

In June 2007, three residents of Pie Town, Nita Larronde, Don Kearney, and Kathy Knapp, were awarded the Curry Trail Angel Award by the Adventure Cycling Association in recognition for their kindness and generosity.

Rachael Price

Price performs with Lake Street Dive, a four-piece Brooklyn-based band started in 2005 in Boston with Mike Olson, Michael Calabrese and Bridget Kearney.

Richard G. Kopf

Kopf received his B.A. from Kearney State College (now the University of Nebraska at Kearney) in 1969 where he was a member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity.

Rob Kearney

Born and raised in the Cooley Peninsula, Kearney, like many of his peers, got involved in athletics at an early age.

Stanley Armour Dunham

The most recent native European ancestor was Falmouth Kearney, a farmer who emigrated from Moneygall, County Offaly, Ireland, during the Great Irish Famine and settled in Jefferson Township, Tipton County, Indiana, United States.

The Best of Guitar Shorty

The Best of Guitar Shorty is the first true compilation album released by blues guitarist Guitar Shorty (David Kearney); 1996's Billie Jean Blues was more of a live album.

Tony Kearney

In 2011, Kearney acted in Somersaults, a play written by Iain Finlay Macleod for the National Theatre of Scotland.

William Redmond

Willie Redmond or William Hoey Kearney Redmond (1861–1917), Irish nationalist politician, brother of John Redmond, British Army captain

Wong Chin Foo

Wong went up repeatedly against anti-Chinese activist Denis Kearney, heckling him and at one point challenging him to a duel, and giving Kearney his choice of weapon: chopsticks, Irish potatoes, or Krupp guns.

Y102

KRNY, a radio station nicknamed "Y102" in Kearney, Nebraska, USA.