The Garda Commissioner has refused to give a judge an undertaking to spare an officer from facing internal disciplinary proceedings after a court found him guilty of theft.

A cash-strapped Garda has been found guilty of stealing a tax disc from his superior's office and fraudulently using it on his own car.

A Sligo man, who called his 15-year-old daughter a whore after he raped her, has been jailed for ten years by Ms Justice Elizabeth Dunne at the Central Criminal Court.