Galway next on list as Leitrim start to dream of better days

IT wasn’t so much the win as the manner of their victory over Sligo that gave Leitrim selector Declan Bohan such satisfaction.

It was Leitrim’s first win over one of the other 31 ‘home’ counties in the championship since 2000, only their second since 1994 and their first in Carrick-in-Shannon in 14 years.

It’s hard to overstate the importance of the result.