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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 …

IT’S 38 years since Seán Stack captained Clare to their last national league title but when he presses the refresh button on the bank of memories, tales flow effortlessly. Most of them are of great times, games and life-long friends but an obstinate regret lingers that Clare failed to deliver a Munster title. The absence of a Munster medal irks Stack and always will. His eyes cannot conceal the hurt. Clare played in three league finals in the mid to late 1970s, losing in ’76 to Kilkenny and beating them in ’77 and ’78. They lost three successive provincial finals in that era. “Frightening isn’t it?” Stack said of the speed with which the years have piled up since. “Would you believe I can still feel the sense in the dressing room, the atmosphere in the camp and the build up to the league finals.” As if they togged together last Sunday, Stack can clearly recall who did what in …