A Cork man has denied raping his partner’s teenage sister and said that “the allegations were thrown about without evidence or proof”.

A man accused of raping his aunt in her Cork home denied in garda interview that he threatened to rape her at knifepoint and instead claimed that they had sex after she came on to him.

A Cork man who raped a woman while she slept on his couch after an evening out socialising has been sentenced to seven years.