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LISTEN: Rare success for Leitrim footballers

Mar 4, 2019 15:26
By Denise Canavan
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LISTEN: Rare success for Leitrim footballers

Leitrim's county footballers are toasting their first promotion in almost three decades.

Their win at home to London yesterday was a fifth victory in a row and sees Terry Hyland's men promoted from Division Four with two games to spare.

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It was their first promotion since 1990, and now they are set to play in Croke Park for the first time since 2006 - they'll take on Derry in the final.

On today's Joe Finnegan Show, we reflected on Leitrim's success with playwright and actor Seamus O'Rourke and Carrick-on-Shannon-born Irish Times journalist Ronan McGreevy.

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