A man told gardaí that he punched a 57-year-old man, whom he is accused of unlawfully killing, after he woke up to find the man "feeling his girlfriend’s tits", when the couple had been sleeping rough in a doorway under a duvet.

A 40-year-old convicted rapist who answered a text message sent accidentally by a 15 year old girl and then started a sexual relationship with her has been jailed for three years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.