Dr Crokes and Errigal Ciaran clash in the first of Saturday's All-Ireland Club Senior Football Championship semi-finals. The sides meet at St Conleth's Park in Newbridge following last weekend's postponement.

Errigal Ciaran have already done what no other club from Tyrone has done and now they bid to smash through another glass ceiling and become the first Tyrone side to feature in an All-Ireland Club SFC final.

Dr Crokes are the club standing in their way this afternoon - a team who’ve lifted the Andy Merrigan Cup twice and were beaten finalists as recently as 2019, reports Belfast Live.

While the sides have never met at club level, Tony Brosnan and Gavin White featured on the Kerry team that defeated Tyrone in the All-Ireland SFC quarter-final in 2023 with five Errigal players lining out for the Red Hands that day, namely Cormac Quinn, Peter Harte, Joe Oguz, Darragh Canavan and Ruairi Canavan.

The managers of both clubs also have history. When Pat O’Shea took over from Jack O’Connor as Kerry senior manager in 2007, the Kingdom retained the Sam Maguire.

The following season, they were denied a three-in-a-row by a Tyrone side featuring Errigal Ciaran boss Enda McGinley, who collected his third All-Ireland title. Tyrone were, of course, managed by another Errigal Ciaran man, Mickey Harte, during those All-Ireland victories in the noughties.

While Dr Crokes have recent experience of playing in the All-Ireland series, Errigal Ciaran were last in the semi-final back in 2003 when they lost out to Nemo Rangers of Cork in Portlaoise.

They return to O’Moore Park this afternoon with the hope of claiming the scalp of the Kerry and Munster champions. Tyrone versus Kerry battles at any level . .. .