The man convicted of raping and killing beautician Rachel Kiely in Ballincollig in 2000 was sentenced to 21 months yesterday for heroin dealing in Macroom.

Within weeks of being released from sentences totalling 16 years for killing and raping a young Cork beautician and robbing an elderly couple at their rural post office, a Cork criminal violently robbed a Limerick shop manager, a court heard.

A convicted killer and rapist, who strangled a Cork beautician, has been cleared of a gun attack in Limerick.

A Ballincollig man accused of a gun attack in Limerick City told gardaí that firearm residue found on his hand came from a shotgun he used days previously when out late at night shooting at trees on a Co Cork farm, a court heard.

Firearm residue taken from the face, hands, and clothing of a man accused of a gun attack in Limerick strongly supported the suggestion that he was the person involved, a court heard.

Firearm residue taken from the face, hands, and clothing of a man accused of a gun attack in Limerick strongly supported the suggestion that he was the person involved, a court heard.

A four-week-old baby narrowly escaped shotgun pellets which hit the seat in which she had been placed earlier, a court heard.

A man was shot and wounded after he went to the front door of his house to have a cigarette, Limerick Circuit Court heard yesterday.

The man who raped and killed beautician Rachel Kiely in 2000 has moved to Limerick to live with the sister of a gang rapist.

The State has failed in a bid to increase the four-year sentence for robbery handed down to a Cork man who raped and killed beautician Rachel Kiely more than 10 years ago.

A man who raped and killed a Cork beautician has had another four years added to his 12-year sentence today – for robbing an elderly couple while he was out on bail.

Cork man Ian Horgan has won his appeal against the conviction he received for the 2005 robbery of a post office.

CONVICTED killer and rapist Ian Horgan will have to wait to the new year to find out if his appeal against the conviction he received for the robbery of a post office has been successful.

Convicted killer and rapist Ian Horgan will have to wait to the New Year to find out if his appeal against the conviction he received for the robbery of a post office has been successful.

AN appeal brought by convicted killer and rapist Ian Horgan against both his conviction and eight-year prison sentence he received for the robbery of a post office will be heard by the Court of Criminal Appeal next week.

An appeal brought by convicted killer and rapist Ian Horgan against both his conviction and eight years prison sentence he received for the robbery of a post office will be heard by the Court of Criminal Appeal next week.

THE man who raped and killed Ballincollig beautician Rachel Kiely was jailed for a further eight years yesterday — for carrying out a robbery while on bail.

The man who raped and killed Ballincollig beautician Rachel Kiely was jailed for another eight years today – for carrying out a robbery while out on bail.

A HOODED man armed with a slash hook robbed over €1,500 from a post office in West Cork and then took off in a car he stole from outside the premises.

CONVICTED killer Ian Horgan will have the leniency of his 18-month sentence for the manslaughter and rape of Cork woman Rachel Kiely challenged on April 19.

Political Editor Harry McGee examines the implications of yesterday’s decision not to proceed with the manslaughter retrial of Dermot Laide.

FIVE-and-a-half years after Rachel Kiely was killed by a neighbour while out walking the dogs, it is quite remarkable how the family has managed to rein in any feelings of anger and bitterness felt towards her killer.

Ian Horgan has been sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment for the manslaughter and rape of beautician Rachel Kiely.

A Cork man was today found guilty of the rape and manslaughter of beautician Rachel Kiely.

THE family of a young beautician who was brutally raped and strangled to death four years ago yesterday expressed “disbelief and shock” at a court’s decision to overturn the conviction of the man found guilty of killing her.

Ian Horgan, a Cork youth jailed for life in June today received an additional ten-year prison sentence for the rape of the 22 year-old beautician he strangled to death in 2000.

Ian Horgan, a Cork youth on trial for the rape and murder of 22-year-old beautician Rachel Kiely, has been convicted of her rape and murder by a Central Criminal Court jury and jailed for life.