ON ST PATRICK’S DAY 2013, Ronan Stack was the fresh-faced kid in the St Brigid’s team. The youngster rubbing shoulders with the club’s celebrated names of Mannion, Kilbride and Dolan, as they became the first Roscommon side to lift the Andy Merrigan Cup. Now the club that draws players from Kiltoom and Cam, a community just outside Athlone, will return to the exalted stage of an All-Ireland final. Stack is the only starting player that overlaps between the finalists of 2013 and 2024.
Goalkeeper Cormac Sheehy was on the squad then, substitute Eoin Sheehy came off the bench in that final win over Ballymun Kickhams eleven years ago. The wing-back remains a critical component of a defence that is now anchored by his younger brother Brian, an All-Star nominee last year for his stellar showings for Roscommon. “A career really flies by in a blink of an eye,” said Stack, standing in the cold winter sunshine yesterday, reflecting on a semi-final success over Cork’s Castlehaven. “You’re a young lad and then you’re a veteran. It’s great to be back at this leve
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