Séamus Cleere

Séamus Cleere, born in 1940, is an Irish retired hurler whose career included three All-Ireland Championship victories with the Kilkenny senior hurling team, including one as captain in 1963. After beginning at club level with Bennettsbridge he joined the Kilkenny minor team at seventeen in 1958, had a brief stint with the junior side and was promoted to the senior team in 1960. From his debut he was ever-present as a right wing-back and made 22 championship appearances in a career that ended with his last game in 1969, during which he was part of three All-Ireland winning teams, in 1963 as captain, 1967 and as a substitute in 1969. He also secured five Leinster Championship medals and two National Hurling League medals, and his club career yielded six Kilkenny County Championship titles during a golden age for Bennettsbridge.