*Colin Lynch. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill
FORMER CLARE great, Colin Lynch is set to take on a new coaching role with Clarecastle.
Following the conclusion of a two year term as coach to the Kilmaley senior hurlers, the club he won a Clare SHC medal with in 2004, Colin is on course to link up with Clarecastle in a new-look management with the Magpies for the 2023 campaign.
Brian Russell has stepped down as manager of the Magpies, ending a two year stint where he successfully managed to help the eleven time champions retain their senior status. Clare’s two-time All-Ireland winning captain, Anthony Daly who got involved this year and Shane Mullane who was coach for the past two years will on the sideline for 2023.
Having served as a selector under Russell, Eric Flynn a three-time senior championship winner with Clarecastle and indeed the holder of a Munster club medal from 1997 is to make the step-up as manager.
Colin O’Higgins will remain as a selector with the ticket set to be completed by the addition of two-time All Star Colin Lynch.
During Lynch’s two year stint with Kilmaley, they were crowned Clare Cup champions in 2022 and despite only losing two competitive games all year did not progress past the group stages in the race for the Canon Hamilton. The side managed by Conor Clancy reached the quarter-finals in 2021 where they lost by a single point to eventual winners, Ballyea.
Since hanging up his playing boots with Clare prior to the 2009 championship, Colin has been involved with Newmarket-on-Fergus, St Thomas’, Roscrea and the Clare U21 hurlers plus the Ennistymon senior footballers.
