Club: Sarsfields.
Path to Connacht title: beat Tooreen (Mayo) 5-15 to 1-15 in final. (Earlier, Sarsfields had beaten 1997 AllIreland champions Athenry in Galway semi-final and then beaten Clarinbridge in the county final).
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