Sheehan to lead Stacks’ traditional parade

Laois footballer and Austin Stacks member Billy Sheehan will be among the leaders of the club’s now traditional parade to O’Moore Park on Sunday.

Prominent with a megaphone at Stacks’ county and Munster championship games last year, Sheehan has helped organise the members’ “16th man” show of strength in his adopted county. The march commences at 3pm at O’Loughlin’s Hotel in Portlaoise, owned by Mick O’Dwyer’s former Laois selector Declan O’Loughlin.

The sight of the black and amber backing arriving en masse at big games has been a common occurrence going back to the early Nineties.