A mother who left her three-month-old baby outside “in the depths of winter in below sub-zero temperatures” has been given a 12-month suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The wife of a man accused of raping and assaulting her admitted she had initially lied to gardaí in a statement saying that her husband had not been living with her at the time the alleged offences took place.

A man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court accused of raping and assaulting his wife after he had been out drinking.