Callanan: we’re all playing catch-up

YOU have to feel for Colm Callanan. On the club scene Callanan plays for Kinvara in the Galway senior championship, the same championship dominated for the last number of years by Portumna, three-times All-Ireland club champions in the last four seasons.

On the inter-county scene, Colm is vying with James Skehill for the number one shirt for Galway who face Kilkenny in the Leinster SHC semi-final at Tullamore on Saturday. That’s the same Kilkenny who have won 11 of the last 12 Leinster titles, the same Kilkenny going for four-in-a-row All-Ireland crowns.

No matter which way he turns, no matter which jersey he pulls over his shoulders, he faces a huge challenge.