The Court of Criminal Appeal has today ruled that the three-year sentence handed down to a Tipperary man who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl was too lenient.

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.

A 45-year-old Tipperary man who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl after driving her to a remote woodlands in County Offaly nine years ago has been jailed for three years by Mr Justice Barry White.

THE President, Mary McAleese, has been in the public eye a lot since she got ‘re-elected.’