Great craic & friendly people

LEITRIM is always the butt-end of jokes and I've met Irish people who don't even know it exists.

- BY LARISSA NOLAN

With just 35,000 residents, it's the one with the smallest population and it's sort of secretly sandwiched between six counties, Sligo, Donegal, Cavan, Fermanagh, Roscommon and Longford.

But I reckon the Leitrimese are having the last laugh, because they know it's the best little county in Ireland.

I spent some years in Manorhamilton, the main town in what those who live there distinguish as North Leitrim.