A young Pakistani man was unlawfully arrested for deportation because it happened a day before before a final decision refusing him residency on the basis of his father's "marriage" to a Romanian woman, an EU citizen, the Supreme Court has ruled.

A Dublin father-of-three who violently raped a woman he had just met that night at a house party has been remanded in custody pending sentence at the Central Criminal Court.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reduced the prison sentence imposed on a 32-year-old man for the rape of his three-year-old daughter from 12 years to eight.