Callan (TV series) is run by Colonel Hunter. ("Hunter" is a pseudonym for the current Section Chief, like the C of SIS.) The Section removes those who pose a danger to the "innocent" by persuasion, blackmail, extortion or death. David Callan had been the Section's top operator but he had become too curious about his targets and the rationale for their removal. The Section considered him vulnerable, volatile and dangerous and had laid him off to a dead-end book-keeping job for an ungrateful employer. ABC then commissioned a series of six episodes in 1967. In the first episode Callan rejoins the section in
Callan (barony) and Ossory. Callan is currently administered by Kilkenny County Council. A single townland of 19 acres, Gortnasragh, which is an exclave of the civil parish of Killaloe, forms the remaining civil parish of the barony. Callan (barony) Callan () is a barony in the western part of County Kilkenny, Ireland.It is one of 12 baronies in County Kilkenny. The size of the barony is . There are 2 civil parishes in Callan, made up of 65 townlands. The chief town is Callan. Unusually for a barony, it contains only two civil parishes. Callan lies to the west of the county,