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Mon 07 Jul 2007September roadBefore yesterday's great victory, Sligo last claimed the Connacht senior football championship back in 1975 - strangely, the same year Richie Bennis, the current Limerick manager, inspired the Treaty men to victory over Tipperary in a replayed Munster semi-final.Limerick were eventually overwhelmed in that final too.