Lawyers for a Dublin teenager who is due to be sentenced for attempted murder have asked for time to consider yesterday's Supreme Court ruling on the rights of suspects in garda custody.

Major changes in the way gardaí carry out interrogations will have to be adopted after the Supreme Court said suspects should be allowed access to solicitors before they are questioned.

A unanimous Supreme Court judgment quashing a man’s attempted rape conviction on grounds that suspects who request a lawyer cannot be questioned by gardaí until they get legal advice has significant implications for Garda investigations and may affect some prosecutions.

A Donegal man has failed in his appeal against his six-year prison sentence for climbing up a drainpipe and attempting to rape a mother-of-two as she slept in her bedroom.

A Donegal man has been jailed for six years for attempting to rape a woman while she was sleeping after he had climbed up a drainpipe at her house and got into her bed.