Portumna fended off the challenge of outsiders Mount Leinster Rangers to win their fourth All-Ireland Club Hurling title at Croke Park.

Mitchelstown have received a boost with the news that former Cork manager Billy Morgan could be involved with their intermediate team in 2014.

Peter Smith was on the last Midleton team to win the county SHC title in 1991, as part of a side which featured household names like Ger Fitzgerald, Kevin Hennessy, John Fenton, Pat Hartnett and Denis Mulcahy.

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The Portsmouth Supporters’ Trust expects other fan groups to follow its lead after it was given permission by a High Court judge yesterday to take control at Fratton Park.

British Culture Secretary Maria Miller today promised no church would ever be forced to conduct a gay wedding as she faced a furious backlash from traditionalist Tories over Government plans for same-sex weddings.

A British High Court judge today said he did not trust two American businessmen who used to own Liverpool Football Club.

Struggling health insurers are increasingly offering restricted cover deals which, while cheaper in the short term, are a “time bomb” for unsuspecting customers, it has been claimed.

Bank bosses involved in a sale of Liverpool Football Club today asked a High Court judge to declare them not guilty of “any dishonesty or corruption”.

A FORMER Pennsylvania juvenile court judge was sentenced to 28 years in prison for accepting payment to send juveniles to a for-profit detention facility in a scandal dubbed “kids for cash”.

Team Lotus and Group Lotus were both claiming victory in the naming rights row following today’s High Court judgment, although it is by far the end of the matter.

TENSIONS surrounding the Pope’s visit to Scotland and England intensified last night as one of his key advisers compared Britain to the Third World.

PORTUMNA are now just 60 minutes from completing an historic three-peat of All-Ireland club titles after this win in the capital yesterday afternoon.

Searches are being carried out in central London after a man with suspected links to al-Qaida allegedly tried to blow up a transatlantic plane, Scotland Yard said today.

An airline passenger from Nigeria who said he was acting on al Qaida's instructions set off an explosive device in a failed terror attack on the plane as it was preparing to land.

Madonna today accepted substantial undisclosed damages for privacy and infringement of copyright over the Mail on Sunday’s publication of “purloined” photos of her wedding to Guy Ritchie.

THREE points in the second period of extra time by Conor Lehane gave Midleton a thrilling victory over neighbours Carrigtwohill in a gripping Evening Echo SHC relegation semi-final replay at Castlemartyr last night.

Nasa declared an end to the Phoenix mission, five months after the spacecraft became the first to land in Mars’ arctic plains and taste water on another planet.

Nasa’s Phoenix spacecraft has discovered evidence of past water at its Martian landing site and spotted falling snow for the first time, scientists reported.

Scientists have sped up their Mars lander mission after a short circuit cast doubt over the future of the probe.

Excited scientists today hailed the discovery of water ice on Mars as a major breakthrough in the search for life on the planet.

Scientists believe Nasa’s Phoenix Mars lander exposed bits of ice while recently digging a trench in the soil of the Martian arctic, the mission’s principal investigator said today.

Plans for the Phoenix Mars Lander's second day of activities on Mars have been delayed, Nasa officials said today.

Nasa’s Phoenix Mars Lander spent its first full day in the Martian arctic plains checking its instruments in preparation for an ambitious digging mission to study whether the site could have once been habitable.

Scientists were dazzled today by the first pictures from the Phoenix lander after its safe arrival on the surface of Mars.

A THREE-LEGGED NASA spacecraft was closing in on Mars yesterday for what scientists hope will be the first-ever touchdown near Mars’ north pole to study whether the permafrost could have supported primitive life.

High-end property group Savills today said 2008 prospects hinged on how soon financial markets shaken by the credit crunch recovered their stride.

A first-time mother from Hampshire in England died in childbirth from a brain haemorrhage after a clerical blunder left her without specialist care despite both her mother and aunt dying from the same rare condition, an inquest has heard today.

One of the writers who tried to sue for plagiarism over Dan Brown's blockbuster novel 'The Da Vinci Code' has died.

American author Dan Brown did not copy large parts of an earlier book to produce his blockbuster novel, The Da Vinci Code, the Court of Appeal ruled today.

LAWYERS for two authors who claim novelist Dan Brown stole their ideas for his blockbuster novel The Da Vinci Code urged Britain’s Court of Appeal yesterday to overturn Brown’s victory in the copyright infringement case.

A CLIMATE change time bomb may be just 10 years away from detonating, according to the latest global warming evidence.

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A SECRET code has been hidden in a high court judgment by the judge at the centre of The Da Vinci Code copyright trial.

A secret code has been hidden in a UK High Court judgement by the judge at the centre of the Da Vinci Code copyright trial.

An accusation that millionaire author Dan Brown stole the ideas for his blockbuster The Da Vinci Code was a “travesty”, a High Court judge heard today.

THE judge hearing The Da Vinci Code “copying” case challenged its author yesterday over when he read the book whose authors are claiming he lifted their ideas.

THE second instalment of the battle over The Da Vinci Code novel became a whodunnit first row at the High Court in London yesterday.

American Dan Brown, one of the highest paid authors in history, faced a High Court claim today that the central theme of his blockbuster novel, The Da Vinci Code, was copied from an earlier work.