Caltra all geared up for a taste of the limelight

THE enduring attraction of the AIB Club championship is that it thrusts small parish teams into the limelight like no other competition in the GAA.

Of the four teams which made it through to next Sunday's football semi-finals, only Gaeltacht had a previous involvement at provincial level, at the tail end of 2001 when they lost by a point to Nemo Rangers in the Munster semi-final.

Caltra just like St Brigid's who oppose Gaeltacht in Thurles had never won the Galway championship prior to comprehensively beating a much more experienced Killererin side in the final in Pearse Stadium.