A 79-year-old man has been jailed for two and a half years for sexually abusing his two young daughters during the 1970s and 1980s.

A Kildare man has been remanded in custody pending sentence for the rape of his two younger sisters over 40 years ago which left one of the women suicidal.

A Mountjoy prisoner on trial for murder has told a jury he was angry and bitter at "the system" when he stabbed his cellmate in the chest as he lay sleeping in bed.