Page 10 - Callan United 50th Anniversary Yearbook 2018/19

That was until a new youth club was set up in 1968 and the

leaders observed that there was a basis for a good team.
When they went to the Kilkenny and District League to
officially, for the first time, enter an organised league they

were miffed when the KDL suggested they start in the lower
echelons of the Tipperary League. Maybe that was the

motivation required because within five years the club had
won two Division one Leagues and one McCalmont Cup,
truly the halcyon period in the club’s history.