A Dublin man who raped his nephew’s wife while she was sleeping beside her husband and toddler has been sentenced to eight years in prison, with the final 12 months suspended.

A man was caught with a cannabis growhouse in his apartment after gardaí on patrol smelled the odour that was being carried onto a city centre street through a makeshift air duct.

THE garda who authorised John Carthy’s detention for questioning over an arson incident did so without knowing in any detail what the grounds for detaining him were.