Sharon Hennessy and her family smiled through tears as they left court 13 of the Criminal Courts of Justice for the last time.

A Kildare man has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison for the violent sexual attack on a young woman who took her own life a year later.

A Kildare man has been sentenced to seven and a half years for the violent sexual attack on a young woman who took her own life a year later.