Tyrone and Donegal advanced in the Nicky Rackard Cup this afternoon, following wins over Monaghan and Donegal respectively.

Conor Grogan’s 90th minute point secured a sensational victory for Tyrone in this Lory Meagher thriller at Croke Park on Saturday.

London claimed their first ever Christy Ring Cup title at Croke Park this afternoon, while Armagh and Tyrone both earned their second Nicky Rackard and Lory Meagher Cup titles respectively.

This year’s Lory Meagher Cup final will be an all-Ulster affair after Tyrone and Fermanagh emerged victorious in their respective semi-finals yesterday.

Tyrone and Fermanagh will contest the Lory Meagher Cup final in two weeks' time after semi-final victories over Warwickshire and Leitrim respectively this afternoon.

Leitrim were crushed in this Lory Meagher Cup tie at Ballinamore on Saturday by a rampant Tyrone led by Damien Casey.

There was a brace of Ulster wins in the opening round of the Lory Meagher Cup today as Tyrone and Fermanagh recorded victories.

CIARÁN MATHEWSON goaled in the 70th minute as Donegal snatched victory in the Lory Meagher Cup final, having lost the previous two finals.

Donegal 2-12 Tyrone 0-17

Tyrone 1-15 South Down 0-11

The inaugural Lory Meagher Cup final will be an all-Ulster decider on July 11 at Croke Park, following semi-final victories for Donegal and Tyrone this afternoon.

A 26-year-old man was jailed for life after a jury found him guilty of the murder of a 65-year-old who was “the best mum in the whole world”, at the Central Criminal Court today.

A jury in the trial of two Dublin men accused of murdering a 65-year-old grandmother were sent to a hotel for the night after failing to reach a verdict, at the Central Criminal Court today.

A judge directed a jury to find one of two men accused of murdering a 65-year-old grandmother not guilty due to insufficient evidence against the accused, at the Central Criminal Court today.

One of two men accused of murdering a 65-year-old grandmother made additions to part of his statement with gardaí, in which he said that a shotgun he "may have seen before" was not the one shown to him, at the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A forensic scientist told the trial of two Dublin men accused of murdering a 65-year-old grandmother that there was “strong support” that the runners of one of the accused had been in contact with the victim’s door and “slight support” that the runners of the other accused had been at the scene, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

The trial of two Dublin men accused of murdering a 65-year-old grandmother heard that quantities of DNA taken from a bag which contained the shotgun that killed the victim were insufficient to determine DNA profiles, at the Central Criminal Court today.

One of two Dublin men accused of murder told gardaí he “doesn’t know” how his fingerprint ended up on the double-barrelled shotgun that killed a 65-year-old grandmother, the Central Criminal Court today.

One of two men accused of murdering a 65-year-old grandmother told gardaí he “played no role in the death of that poor woman”, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

One of two men accused of murdering a 65-year-old woman said in a statement to gardaí he “saw that a woman had been shot” on the Six o’clock news that night, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

Two prosecution witnesses accused gardaí of “putting words in their mouths” after their statements implicating two Dublin men accused of murdering a 65-year-old woman were read out at the Central Criminal Court today.

A 65-year-old woman shot to death in her bedroom had moved to sleep in that bedroom because “she thought she would be safer” there, her daughter told the trial of two Dublin men accused of her murder, at the Central Criminal Court today.

Two gunmen burst into a west Dublin house smashing windows and kicking through a door before shooting dead a grandmother in her bedroom, a court was told today.

The trial of two Dublin men accused of murdering a 64-year-old woman was put off until tomorrow after a juror recognised a witness in the trial at the Central Criminal Court.

THE murder of Mary Walsh brings to five the number of women who have suffered a violent death this year in Ireland.