Kearney or Carney?

[cables]

How should Kearney be pronounced?

Are commentators correct when they pronounce it as Carney?

[pwrmoore]

Those who know him all seem to go for the car nee option whereas up here he would be keer nee. I guess it is just a dialect thing.

[Rooster]

I know a few Kearney's and they pronounce it the way it is spelt.

[pwrmoore]

I know a few Kearney's and they pronounce it the way it is spelt.

are you sure they don't just spell it the way it's pronounced?

[FourMasters]

Yup, the commentators have it right as far as the lad himself would pronounce his own name.

[cables]

'tis good to learn something every day.

[bogboy]

Thus in Leinster its Carnee and Ulster Kernee

but a rose by any name smells as sweet

but the only rose I knew stank

afterwards

[Neil F]

My only previous experience with such a name is from the Simpsons...

[BR]

I know a few Kearney's and they pronounce it the way it is spelt.

Aye but down your neck of the woods, a carnee (or car nay as the French would say) was a different thing entirely - now rarely seen since EU free movement of goods.

If he's anything like me, he'll have got used to answering to whatever pronounciation of his name is shouted, especiaaly where the person nshouting is closer to the bar.