Brian Kerr

Kerr turned his attention to television as a studio analyst and co-commentator for RTÉ Sport. On 21 August 2016, while commenting on the Burnley vs Liverpool match, he stated the following: "I must say about Klavan, they surprised me when they signed him. He plays for Estonia, he has about 120 caps. He played against the Faroes when I was in the Faroes and I remember studying him before the match and thinking he was a bit of a weak link. I never thought he was a fella who would be playing for Liverpool in the Premier League. Maybe my judgement wasn't very good but we got three goals against him with the Faroes." This was confirmed to be untrue by the Estonian FA who replied to Kerr's allegations stating many inaccuracies as Klavan was not involved in the suggested game. Kerr works as a studio analyst for matches shown on Virgin Media Sport.

Brian Kerr was born on 5 March 1953 in Dublin. The youngest of five children, he grew up in Drimnagh, at the time a south-western suburban area of Dublin. One of Kerr's childhood friends in Drimnagh was future Olympic athlete and world champion runner, Eamonn Coughlan. Kerr began playing football for local schoolboy side Crumlin United along with Coughlan. He also took up boxing at Drimnagh Boxing Club where his father, Frankie Kerr, was a coach. Frankie had been an amateur boxing champion at bantamweight, travelling internationally for fights, and later took over the boxing club at Trinity College Dublin. At age 13, Kerr assumed his first coaching role when he took charge of the under-11 team at Crumlin United. Other sources have reported that he actually managed the under-12 team at age 15 or the under-13 team at age 18. In January 1968, when Kerr was still only 14, his father Frankie died from pneumonia at the age of 51. Kerr gained employment in the botany department at University College Dublin as a trainee technician, while following his football interests. Kerr, although playing for Shelbourne B team, realised he did not possess enough talent to make it to the top as a footballer and at an early age decided to concentrate on coaching. Kerr was then invited by Liam Tuohy to manage Shamrock Rovers B side in 1974. Kerr managed the Irish Technical Schools team during this time. He was reserve team manager at Shelbourne in 1978 and after a stint playing for Bluebell…

In 2016, Kerr was one of two Irish sportspeople along with Timmy Hammersley to put his name to an open letter protesting Bank of Ireland's decision to shut down the accounts of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign. In May 2026, he joined several high-profile figures in signing an open letter to the Football Association of Ireland (FAI), calling for a boycott of matches against Israel due to the humanitarian crisis in Palestine.