A Tipperary man has failed in an attempt to overturn his conviction for the kidnap and sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl in a remote woodland 10 years ago.

Garda files relating to two key witnesses in Catherine Nevin’s trial for the murder of her husband were ordered to be disclosured by the Court of Criminal Appeal today.

Obsolete legislation from the 1920s is being used to inquire into the death of a schoolboy in garda custody, the Dáil heard today.