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Sean Stack has been appointed as the new manager of the Sixmilebridge senior hurling team, it was confirmed at their club committee meeting on Monday evening, writes Eoin Brennan.
The iconic All-Star defender returns to the helm in his native club for the first time since 2004 and is joined on the backroom team by All-Ireland senior winners for both club and county Michael O’Halloran and Niall Gilligan along with Jim Fitzgerald and Adrian Chaplin.
Sixmilebridge, winners of five of the last nine Clare Senior Hurling titles, exited last year’s championship at the quarter-final stage to Éire Óg, this ending a historic bid for a three-in-row of Canon Hamilton crowns under Tim Crowe and Davy Fitzgerald.
Stack’s vast managerial experience, that includes guiding three clubs (Sixmilebridge 1984, Toomevara 1993 and Na Piarsaigh 2011, 2013) to provincial glory in three different decades is accentuated by a glittering playing career.
he won an All-Star in 1981, back-to-back National Hurling Leagues in 1977 and 78 along with seven county senior titles with Sixmilebridge between 1977 and 1993.
