Page 9 - Callan United 50th Anniversary Yearbook 2018/19
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Despite this they entered a team in the McCalmont Cup
each year from 1959 to 1961 wearing black jerseys financed
by a collection from the good townsfolk of Callan. They got
byes each time and on each occasion the team that beat
them reached or won the final.
They called themselves Callan United but there was no club
as such…no officers, no manager and no ground. They
disappeared almost as quickly as they arrived. There was
rampant unemployment in the country and it was a blessed
family who did not have at least one family member in
England or the US. Paddy Grace who organised the
McCalmont sides left for the US and with him, for nearly
eight years, went organised soccer in the town.
The Big Snow
The winter on 2018 will not be forgotten
for many years
