A 69-year-old man sent to prison last year for abusing two generations of his family is not too old to serve a 20-year sentence, according to lawyers for the Director of Public Prosecutions.

A man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with attempting to rape a woman as she tried to get into her city centre apartment.

A Donegal father-of-six raped his teenage daughter once a week while his wife was away from the house, a court has heard.

A 59-year-old Kerry man, who raped a woman in March 2011 after luring her back to a caravan from a pub in Dublin, has been jailed for 15 years.

A convicted rapist has been removed from court during his sentence hearing after he repeatedly interrupted proceedings, tried to sack his barrister and called his victim, a grandmother in her fifties, a “filthy prostitute”.