Seán Stack (born 1953) is an Irish retired hurler who played as a centre-back for the Clare senior team.
[1] Born in Listowel, County Kerry, Stack first played competitive hurling during his schooling at St. Flannan's College.
He arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he first linked up with the Clare minor team before later joining the under-21, junior and intermediate sides.
Stack immediately became a regular member of the starting fifteen and won two National Hurling League medals.
As a member of the Munster inter-provincial team on a number of occasions, Stack won two Railway Cup medal.
A 2–10 to 1–7 defeat of University College Dublin secured a second successive Fitzgibbon Cup medal for Stack.
Stack was also a regular member of the starting fifteen over the next three years, however, St. Patrick's faced defeat in three successive championship deciders.
[4] After defeat in the senior decider in 1976, Sixmilebridge returned to contest a second successive county final the following year against Kilkishen.
Mickey White was the hero for Sixmilebridge as he lofted the winning point seventy five seconds from the final whistle to secure a narrow 1–6 to 1–5 victory.
A narrow 3–7 to 1–12 defeat of Clarecastle courtesy of a late Gerry McInerney goal gave Stack, who was captain and manager of the team, a fourth championship medal.
Stack made his senior championship debut on 7 July 1974 in a narrow 1–8 to 1–7 Munster semi-final defeat of Tipperary.
[12] Clare later faced Cork in the provincial decider, on a day when armed robbers made away with the takings from the gate of £24,579 during the second half of the game.
[13] Clare retained their league title in 1978, with Stack as captain collecting a second winners' medal following a 3–10 to 1–10 defeat of Kilkenny once again.
A 3–12 to 2–9 defeat by Limerick was the result on that occasion, however, Stack ended the year by collecting a GAA All Star Award.