Portumna yesterday overcame Mount Leinster Rangers to claim their fourth All-Ireland Club Hurling title at Croke Park.

PORTUMNA’S All-Ireland Club success last month was the critical factor in Ollie and Joe Canning’s decision to play for the Galway seniors this year, according to Ger Loughnane.

Portumna (Galway) 2-13 Loughmore-Castleiney (Tipperary) 2-9

HE NEVER really went away.

Saturday's Connacht Hurling League encounter between the Galway Development squad and Roscommon will afford a chance for a number of the Tribesmen to impress new county boss Ger Loughnane.

TOMORROW is a huge day for the Canning family from the Portumna club in Galway with Joe and Ollie in line to create their own bit of history by winning All-Ireland hurling medals at minor and senior level respectively.

A MOTHER who claimed she was wrongly convicted of killing her two babies was freed after seven years in jail by the Court of Appeal in London yesterday.

A mother who claimed she was wrongly convicted of killing her two babies was freed by the British Court of Appeal today.

A MOTHER in the UK cleared of killing her babies has launched an attack on the professor whose controversial expert medical witness helped jail her for murder.

Angela Cannings walked free from a life jail sentence today after appeal judges cleared her of murdering her two baby sons.