AN elderly Kilkenny man who repeatedly assaulted nine girls over a 21-year period has had his sentence more than doubled following an appeal by the DPP.

JUSTICE is not being done for women in cases where low sentences are being handed down to convicted sex abusers, the head of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has warned.

There has been anguish and shock at the brevity of the four-year jail sentence imposed on Edwin Curry, who was convicted of 189 cases of indecent assault on nine girls between five and 15 years of age. He lured the young girls into a shed with sweets over a 21-year period.