A TIPPERARY school-teacher has been acquitted by a jury of being in possession of two images of child pornography.

A jury has heard that a teacher’s defence in a child pornography trial is that his computer and the images on it are those of a gay man not a person interested in child pornography.

A MAN accused of raping his son’s teenage girlfriend has said everything he did with her in his car had been consensual.

A Wexford man accused of orally raping and sexually assaulting his former partner told gardaí that he had been beaten up by the woman on at least one occasion and claimed that she was “good with the hands” when angered.

A convicted Carlow rapist who was extradited from the USA in August has today been jailed for seven years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.