A Dublin man has been jailed for eight and a half years at the Central Criminal Court for raping and sexually assaulting his young niece between 1998 and 2005.

The trial of a man accused of kicking another man to death then setting fire to his body has entered its closing stages in the Central Criminal Court.

A man accused of kicking another man to death then setting fire to his body has told a jury in the Central Criminal Court that he was "very, very sorry" for what he had done.