The woman was raped by Dilzar Hamad in a downstairs toilet during a visit to his home. She had been attempting to leave the bathroom when Hamad appeared and pushed her back inside.

Her uncle, now aged 63, had pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to a number of charges but was convicted by a jury following a trial last year on three charges of indecent assault.

Three years ago, Conor Gorman-Hogan spent Christmas fighting for his life in Dublin's Beaumont Hospital after he was assaulted in a Co Donegal nightclub.

Judge says attack was planned and placed in higher range of offending.

The judge urged a social media debate on consent after rape sentencing

The middle-aged man was before the Cork Circuit Criminal Court, having pleaded guilty to the non-fatal strangulation of his former partner.

On Monday, Keith Smithers was handed a global sentence of nine years, while White was jailed for four and a half years for robbery.

Fr Murphy said if it wasn't him that night, it would have been someone else

The Central Criminal Court heard from two of the victims of the devasting and long lasting effects

A man who raped a friend in a “breach of trust” after a birthday party has been jailed for six years

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard the abuse occurred while Jacintha McSherry O'Connor (now 63) worked as a student teacher at a Dublin secondary school