"Winning is not everything - not for anything would I part from my Leitrim team mates” - Packie McGarty The late great Galway defender Jack Mahon penned this tribute to his former opponent Packie McGarty in 1993, describing him as “irrepressible, a born footballer” Reporter: 14 Apr 2021 A picture of Leitrim's Columba Cryan, Packie McGarty & Cathal Flynn on the Connacht Railway Cup winning team of 1958 '); '); It's a dangerous game naming anyone as the greatest ever. A writer can only cover what he saw himself, his own lifetime. Leitrim won the county's only Connacht Senior Football Championship title in 1927 and that was five years before I was born.