The winning ticket was sold in Joyce’s Supermarket, much to the delight of the shop owner Pat Joyce.

A Galway man wrongly convic-ted and hanged for the murder of a family of five in 1882 will be remembered next month ahead of efforts in the British Houses of Parliament to declare the conviction a miscarriage of justice.

Former Kilkenny forward John Power has returned to the inter-county fold as a selector for the Cats' intermediate hurlers.