A Galway man paid £1.50 to the father of a mildly mentally impaired teenage woman to have sexual intercourse with her, Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court heard.

A man accused of raping his former girlfriend in his flat told gardai they had consensual sex.

A woman told a Central Criminal Court jury she informed her ex-boyfriend he had raped her when he suggested they return to his flat to "make love again".

A 33-year-old Dublin man has denied in the Central Criminal Court the rape and false imprisonment of his former girlfriend.